Galina Balashova still lives in Moscow but spent the best part of her life shaping the forms, ergonomics, colour, style and typography of Soviet Russia's ambitious space programme ... Jonathan Bell ...

Deep within the Baikonur Cosmodrome lies a haunting sight—abandoned Soviet space shuttles, once symbols of Cold War ambition and cutting-edge engineering. This video explores the rise and fall of the ...

The Soviet Union established a near-permanent presence of cosmonauts in Earth orbit since the 1970s as part of the Salyut program. These Salyut space stations also served as cover for the military ...

Michael Nelmes steps us through the Soviet space shuttle program. President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax-and-spending bill could come with a big, ugly cost, economists warn.

Do you think it’s one of the Soviet space program’s finest hours? I don’t know if I would call the rescue of Salyut 7 one of the USSR’s finest hours any more than I would call the Apollo ...

the state corporation that runs the Russian space program. Designed to land on the surface of Venus, Kosmos-482 may have remained intact during its plunge. It splashed down in the Indian Ocean ...

Vostok-1, the first manned spaceship, landed empty, as Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made an early exit via parachute and touched down a few kilometers away. AFP/Getty Images The “space race ...

Then the same thing happened on one of its Progress cargo ships. The civil space program’s Soviet predecessor launched the first person into orbit, but with the International Space Station (ISS ...

A defunct Soviet probe designed to land on Venus will have an uncontrolled reentry this month and pieces of it may make it to Earth's surface. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

Americans were killed during the Apollo program and the space shuttle program. The Soviet Union also had its share of fatal accidents. One of its worst space disasters was the Soyuz 7K-OKS ...

Putin Praises Elon Musk, Compares Him to Father of Soviet Space Program MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev ...