The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 septuagenarian space port proves as reliable as ever, but geopolitics and funding mean that its future at the forefront ...

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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 ...