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 ...

Buran was designed to perform up to 100 flights and take a crew of up to 10 people into space. The Buran project involved 1,206 enterprises from all across the Soviet Union. The program was closed ...

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

Why the VM-T Atlant Is Such a Badass Plane ...

Borisov gave responsive answers rather than defensive ones to some difficult questions about the fading status of the Russian space program. He is complimentary of NASA, and of competitors such as ...

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

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 ...