It took the United States years to reach the same milestones, but the Soviet space program was not as woke as the Times story suggests. Nationalist intentions, not a push for equality, were behind ...

A 1960s poster celebrating the Sputnik satellite shows it flying in front of a Russian-tagged moon. What if the superior Soviet space program had won the race? Credit: Found Image Holdings/Corbis ...

Here’s how it works. The Vostok program was a Soviet space program project that ran from 1960 to 1963 and achieved many spectacular milestones in spaceflight, including placing the first man in ...

The Voskhod program was succeeded by the Soviet Soyuz program, which started carrying three-person crews in 1967, and has remained Russia's means of transporting humans into space ever since.

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were ...

After Korolyov died in 1966, Dr. Mishin took over the Soviet space program and led the massive effort to outpace the Americans in the moon race. American astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the ...