Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were ...
Russia's space program has thrown its weight behind ... and less and less time conducting experiments," he said. Indeed, Russian crew members have been hard at work identifying several leaks ...
The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA's space shuttle program. Buran, which means “snowstorm” in Russian, flew one time. NASA's space ...
The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United States ... land at runways around the world has been a part of the American space program since the very beginning. In 1957, the US Air Force started ...
The Soviet leadership ordered Almaz hulls transferred to a crash program to launch a civilian space station. Work on the Transport Logistics Spacecraft was deferred, and the Soyuz spacecraft ...
The Soviet Union’s achievements in space exploration ... about the key role of Ukrainian designers in the Soviet space program. In part, Zelensky said that Yuri Gagarin’s historical space ...