The Russians have big ambitions for their space program. They are planning a new space station to replace their share of the International Space Station when it ends its operational life around 2030.

On the morning of April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin fell out of the sky onto a quilt of farmland growing wheat and rye in the Russian village of Smelovka. He unhooked his parachute and strolled, waving, ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. space scientists, frustrated by delays caused by the explosion of the shuttle Challenger, have increasingly pinned their hopes on joint experiments with a thriving Soviet space program ...

Summary: Despite the clear parallels between the American and Soviet designs, including the external similarities and the utilization of shared technology, the Buran program embodied Moscow’s ambition ...

Russian President Putin chairs a meeting on the development of Russian Navy in Saint Petersburg MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to ...

A computer-generated video shows two of the SOviet Union's never-realized space projects, the Buran spaceplane and the Mir-2 ...

“For All Mankind” has been renewed for Season 5 at Apple TV+. In addition, Variety has learned the streamer has ordered a spinoff series focusing on the Soviet space program. The spinoff is currently ...

After two cosmonauts vanished into a frozen forest in 1965, the Soviet space program quietly built a dedicated survival weapon for landings gone wrong. This story follows the TP-82, the myths around ...

Thomas P. Stafford, an astronaut who pioneered cooperation in space when he commanded the U.S. capsule that linked up with a Soviet spaceship in July 1975, died Monday in Satellite Beach, Florida. He ...

Vostok-1, the first manned spaceship, landed empty, as Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made an early exit via parachute and touched down a few kilometers away. AFP/Getty Images The “space race” of the ...

The Russians have big ambitions for their space program. They are planning a new space station to replace their share of the International Space Station when it ends its operational life around 2030.

Embark on a journey to the heart of Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome, where the remnants of the Soviet Union's Buran space shuttle program lie in silent testimony to a once-vibrant era of space ...