Welcome to the story of the Tu-104, the Soviet Union’s first jet airliner, derived from a military bomber. Known for its unresponsive controls, terrifying stalls, and dangerous landing ...

and the Soviet Union were scrambling to field the first passenger jets. The British were the first to build a passenger jetliner, the de Havilland D.H.106 Comet, which was tested in 1949 and ...

Look closer at the Tupolev Tu-154, the Soviet workhorse jet known as "Careless" and affectionately referred to as Tupe.

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...