[Ken Shirriff] writes about taking apart the digital clock module from the Soviet Soyuz series of spacecraft and there are a lot of interesting bits to the device. After all, it has been into space.

On this date, Jan. 15, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Soyuz 5. The capsule would soon rendezvous and dock to the Soyuz 4 capsule becoming – as the Soviet’s declared – the world’s first ...

Soyuz design bureau chief Vasily Mishin may ... Leonov recalled the reaction in the Soviet Union: "There were lots of letters addressed to the government, all of which asked how it could have ...

A Soyuz rocket has launched a new weather satellite ... Early satellites were given names under the Kosmos series, used by the Soviet Union as a placeholder when it did not want to reveal which ...

with the Soviet Union deciding to name him the Commander of the Soviet half of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission. The historic meeting of the Cold War rivals in space saw the docking of the Soyuz 19 ...