As president, Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for a U.S. rapprochement with Russia, in distinct contrast with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of ‘For All Mankind,’” said Wolpert and Nedivi. “The more we learned about this secret city in the forests ...