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It might be another conspiracy theory, but the saga of the lost Soviet cosmonauts has persisted for many years, largely ...
Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...
To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Soviet space program had a lot of hope riding on the Cosmos 482 mission when it launched in March 1972. The mission included a lander destined for Venus. The spacecraft never made it out of ...
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 ...
The Russian space program is run by Roscosmos, a state-owned corporation that has a budget of nearly three billion dollars a year and provides employment for about 250,000 people, including the many ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s and ...