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Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.,Lunar Module (LM) pilot, walks near the module as a picture is taken of him. Discoloration is visible on his boots and suit from the lunar soil adhering to them. Reflection of the LM and Astronaut Niel A. Armstrong is…

The Soviets intended to use this rocket and capsule to send humans to the moon. The program lacked funding and, after four failed attempts, the program was abandoned in 1974.

Explorer I was launched on January 31, 1958, four months after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite.

Speech by Soviet leader Khrushchev in December 1962 covering the causes and consequences of the Cuban Crisis. (Catalogue ref: FO 371/171934)

John F. Kennedy meets with Nikita Khrushchev

Governor Nelson Rockefeller recording (and possibly sending out a live radio broadcast) a message about "Operation Goodwill". Operation Goodwill was originally a Cold War operation that sent money and goods to foreign countries, as a form of global…

Image of a U2 research plane that was used during the Cold War
- Associated Press photograph.
- No. L6176.
- New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

This is a report on meeting of the Paramilitary Study Group concerning the Bay of Pigs operation.

These maps show the boundaries of the Demilitarized Zone following the Armistice Agreement at the end of the Korean War.

The middle line (labelled 1) is the military demarcation line showing the border between North and South Korea. The lines on…

AROOSTOOK LEATHERNECK IN KOREA -- Marine Sergeant Roger W. McCully, 21, straps Captain Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugger, into his jet fighter-bomber at a base of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Korea. Sgt. McCully, a jet aircraft mechanic,…