Strausbaugh reexamines the familiar topic of the Soviet Union’s initial lead in the space race with the United States—an advantage that lasted from 1957, with the launch of Sputnik, the first ...

Walker also explores the many parallels between the Soviet space program and NASA as the two space agencies worked separately toward a common goal: to be the first. You may like ...

In his new book, “The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned,” John Strausbaugh paints an amusing portrait of rockets and spacecrafts held together with little more than ...

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 ...

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,… ...

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 ...

Sent on their way by an R-7, the Soviet space program’s treacherously temperamental workhorse, Voskhod circled the Earth 16 times and returned home safely, much to the relief of Sergei Korolev ...

The space program is also running on a dwindling budget. “Russia is struggling to find a formula for space success in the 21st century,” Moltz wrote in 2020.

The Soviet stray wasn't the only dog in space, but she became the most famous one.

You may have the impression that the Soviet Union's space program was something of a joke. You know, because they failed spectacularly and at great personal expense to put a human being on the ...

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.