Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA ...

A long and strikingly critical article that reviews the state of the Russian space program was published in the state-aligned newspaper MK this week. None of the findings in the 2,800-word article ...

The Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science, near the village of Nizhny Arkhyz, is hosting a contemporary art exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of its construction.

Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, ... He was selected to join the Soviet Union’s new space program in March 1960, along with Gagarin and 18 others.

Cathleen S. Lewis, a curator in the space history department at the National Air and Space Museum, has written Cosmonaut: A Cultural History, which documents the complicated past of Soviet and ...

Three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station today (March 18), wrapping up a brief orbital chase.

Three Russian cosmonauts will launch toward the International Space Station on Friday (March 18), and you can watch the action live.

Mr. Rogozin, the Russian space agency leader, said he hopes the mission will make “a truly serious work of art and a whole new development of the promotion of space technologies,” in order to ...

Russia’s space chief pens stargazing ballads. They also serve Moscow’s political orbit. December 28, 2020. ... Bashing U.S. space efforts has become something of a Russian art form.

Sixty years ago today, on April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history by becoming the first human to travel into space.. Launching aboard the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft, Gagarin ...

Politics A Former Soviet Soldier Turned Dissident Artist Has Opened an Art Space in France for Anti-Putin Voices. Artist Andrei Molodkin hopes to provide a safe haven for artists and creatives who ...