Right after the Soviet Union put two dogs into space and successfully returned them to Earth, a disaster so big that it was ...

This video breaks down every major Soviet and Russian rocket from the very first R-7 to Proton, N1, and Energia. You’ll see ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Buran program was judged a success and would likely have continued had the Cold War carried on. Unfortunately, it suffered from poor timing: the Soviet Union had ...

A decades-old Soviet era piece of space junk has crashed back to Earth after over 40 years in orbit, improbably crash landing back in its home country, Russia. The abandoned Soviet Vostok-2M Blok E ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Buran program, which once involved the hard work of so many talented individuals and so much of the USSR’s treasure, is now a footnote in space history. The intense ...

The Soviet Union experimented with rocket-assisted tanks and armored vehicles. The rockets would give a push to vehicles in difficult terrain, ensuring the ground forces advance. The system was never ...

The Starship‘s many engines are isolated from each other, preventing the risk of one engine failure causing failure of all as in the case of the Soviet Union’s N1 rocket, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Voskhod spacecraft was a vehicle used by the Soviet Union during the Cold War space race to ...

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Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk for his accomplishments in space travel. Musk is the founder and CEO of his own rocket company, SpaceX. Putin compared Musk to the late Soviet rocket pioneer, Sergei ...

The Soviet Union was first in space, first with artificial satellites and then first with dogged missions, manned missions, womaned missions, and space stations. NASA was unable to catch up until the ...

Russia’s space engineers spent years designing futuristic spacecraft for missions to Mars with little hope they would survive the financial meltdown of the nation’s once-glorious space program. But ...