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 ...

But when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Buran program was put on hold, and in 1993, the Buran’s second flight was formally cancelled. The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the most ...

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And what is perhaps the best example of this friendship would be how the Soviet Union has contributed to the establishment and growth of India's space program. India's space program, conceived in ...

What the United States and the Soviet Union learned from these tests is that using or even testing nuclear weapons in space is in no one’s interest because the effects ... Todd Harrison is a senior ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with ... salary far above the wages paid to most employees in Russia's space program. The arrival of North Korean troops near the battlefield is clearly ...

Nov. 16 (UPI) --Officials with NASA are at odds with their counterparts at the Russian space agency Roscosmos over the severity of a leak aboard the International Space Station. The fear among NASA ...