It might be another conspiracy theory, but the saga of the lost Soviet cosmonauts has persisted for many years, largely ...

To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But ...

When the Space Race kicked off in earnest in the 1950s, in some ways it was hard to pin down where sci-fi began and reality ended. As the first artificial satellites began zipping around the Earth,… ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

Bros Of Decay. Exploring the Ruins of the Soviet Space Shuttle Program. Posted: May 26, 2025 | Last updated: May 28, 2025. Deep within the Baikonur Cosmodrome lies a haunting sight—abandoned ...

Russian Space Shuttle Program The Soviet Union attempted to build its own reusable space shuttle system with Buran (the shuttle) and Energia (the launch vehicle) during the 1980s.

But the Russian space program has stalled for years, plagued by sparse budgets. And that was before Vladimir Putin’s onslaught on Ukraine: Some of the space plans the country still had in the ...

In the early 1970s, a Soviet defector exposed Soviet achievements as “space bluff,” which hid failures and created illusions about technological capacities. A wealth of previously classified documents ...

After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet's atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time Saturday, according to ...

Ars Technica mentions another symptom of the Russian space program’s doldrums.Recently, the Russians launched a rocket from the R-7 family of launch vehicles for the 2,000th time. The R-7 ...

Yuri Gagarun was the first Russian cosmonaut sent into space, but his 1961 journey wasn't all it seemed, writes John Strausbaugh in "The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned." ...