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 ...

In remote Kazakhstan, photographer Andrew McConnell captured astronauts’ return from the ISS — and the nomadic communities ...

Russia's space program has thrown its weight behind NASA's plans to destroy the International ... Then in 2023, he agreed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in Earth orbit. Learn more about her life, career and ...

Now McCandless III has teamed up with acclaimed space journalist and podcaster Emily Carney to offer an informal and ...

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 closed-cycle rocket engine design. Image via Wikipedia The Russian space program was largely controlled by one man, Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov. It was his design workflow that made the Russians ...