While Apollo 11 made history, the Soviet space program was quietly unraveling, hit by catastrophic rocket explosions, ...

A pilot in the Afghan Air Force, he was recruited for the Soviet space program. His 1988 flight took place as the Soviets ...

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Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system. A cutaway diagram of the Venera 8 landing ...

Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...

May 25, 2025: Roscosmos, the post-Soviet Russian space program, has proved to be less effective than its Soviet predecessor. The primary problems are incompetence and corruption. One glaring example ...

“Star City” premieres on Friday, May 29, on Apple TV. apple.com Apple TV+'s alternate-history universe expands on May 29 with Star City, an eight-episode limited series set entirely inside the Soviet ...

Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov reportedly flew the doomed Soyuz 1 mission in 1967 knowing he would not survive.

After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time Saturday, according to Roscosmos, ...

The Russian space program is run by Roscosmos, a state-owned corporation that has a budget of nearly three billion dollars a year and provides employment for about 250,000 people, including the many ...