Join us on an extraordinary journey into the deserts of western Kazakhstan as we uncover one of the Soviet Union's most ...

The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA's space shuttle program. Buran, which means “snowstorm” in Russian, flew one time. NASA's space ...

Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History provide timely, concise, authoritative and distinctive overviews of the post-Soviet space. By providing parallel histories of the fifteen successor states, ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

Venera 11 landed on Venus. Venera 11 was a robotic mission launched by the Soviet Union to explore Venus along with its ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

When the Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasted into orbit for the first time, Lyndon Johnson was the president, the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus," and Star Trek made its television debut.

The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United States was building a ‘space bomber’ and quickly began development of their own manned spaceplane. While this Soviet Shuttle would not be as ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to leave a space capsule. Here is Leonov outside the Voskhod 2 orbital craft piloted by Pavel Belyaev on 18 March 1965. SPUTNIK / Alamy Stock Photo ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Space Voyage: Episode 1 - A Big Soviet Adventure Retro-style adventure that tells the story of a simple Soviet cosmonaut. Advertisement All the Latest ...

And what is perhaps the best example of this friendship would be how the Soviet Union has contributed to the establishment and growth of India's space program. India's space program, conceived in ...