"I believe that [Apollo program director George Low] certainly was concerned, and rightly so, that we could have orbited the moon ahead of the Americans. We had everything for it. That is why he ...

Kinescope of the famous Nixon and Khrushchev interaction. The film discusses a conversation about the competition between American and Soviet engineering, highlighting the achievements of both ...

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

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

Mikhail Gorbachev (left, signing an arms treaty with Ronald Reagan in 1987) publicly opposed space weapons, even as the Soviet Union’s prototype laser satellite (painted black) sat on the launch ...

MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Vakhtang Vachnadze, a Soviet and Russian space engineer who headed the project to build the Buran space shuttle orbiter, has died at the age of 89, the Roscosmos state ...

A structural test article of the Soviet Buran space shuttle, on display in Moscow in 2017. WHEN VICTOR ZABOLOTSKY, A TEST PILOT WHO ONCE TRAINED TO FLY the Soviet Buran space shuttle, thinks back ...

JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China--China’s space agency is making final preparations to send the Shenzhou-18 crew into low-Earth orbit on Thursday as part of its ambitious space program ...

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 ...