The high cost of the new space center was justified by claims that there would be many commercial launches for foreign customers. That proved impossible because the western nations that used launch ...

The multi-billion dollar, decade-long undertaking, which still requires sign-off by President Vladimir Putin, calls for RUB4.5 trillion ($56 billion) in space spending, including RUB1 trillion for the ...

Jeff Hessel worked at Cape Canaveral in the heyday of the U.S. space program. He now lectures about the experience to groups ...

A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036 ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall back to our planet. Exactly where or when it will strike, however, remains ...

which pitted the Soviet Union against its chief space-exploring competitor, the United States. The IKI’s Venera program sent a series of probes toward Venus in the 1970s and ‘80s, with several ...

As part of the Cold War between the USSR and the United States, the Soviets pursued an aggressive lunar and deep space exploration program from 1959 until 1989, with mixed results. One facet of ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

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 ...

Mikhail Gorbachev (left, signing an arms treaty with Ronald Reagan in 1987) publicly opposed space weapons, even as the Soviet Union’s prototype ... weapon than the United States was.