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 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 film discusses a conversation about the competition between American and Soviet engineering, highlighting the achievements of both nations. It emphasizes the idea of competing to provide more ...

The recent failed Spectrum rocket launch is another example of the poor state of Europe’s space program—but is, at least, a ...

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

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 ...

One of the few Soviet space program managers with a public profile, Kamanin was also a national hero who had come to prominence back in the 1930s for leading a daring Arctic rescue. Now his mood ...

According to Soviet space scholar Asif Siddiqi, a historian at Fordham University in New York City, Moscow began working on space-based weapons well before Reagan kicked the U.S. program into high ...

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 ...