As World War II drew to a close, the Allies were eager to get their hands on one of the most technologically amazing yet ...

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 ...

The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...

The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United ... 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 ...

The Apollo program is arguably the most famous achievement of the United States regime, but how much do you really know about ...

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret recreates the story of a British schoolteacher and his students who discovered secrets of the Soviet space program. In the 1960s, Geoffrey Perry at the ...

The project contractors are Lavochkin NPO and the Space Research Institute ... adding that Russia’s latest Venus program took place during the Soviet Union era. Previously, Roscosmos CEO ...

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 ...