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Staying open can mean coping with security service raids, harassment, verbal attacks by lawmakers and an exodus of staff ...
The space race – rockets, satellites, record-breaking cosmonauts – was a way for Soviet artists to adopt avant-garde ideas under the cloak of propaganda.
To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But ...
The payload Russia's military chose to launch on the Angara A5 is unusual. The rocket deployed its primary passenger, Kosmos ...
Russia's co-orbital satellite tactics are redefining space deterrence and signaling a more aggressive phase in orbital ...
Russia's departure from the International Space Station program isn't exactly imminent, it would seem.
Russia’s Roscosmos space agency is having a bit of a moment. After the country invaded Ukraine earlier this year, its space agency flirted with the idea of pulling its cosmonauts out of the ...
MOSCOW — Russia will pull out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost, the country’s new space chief said Tuesday amid high tensions ...
The first artwork ever made in space depicts an orbital sunrise and was made by Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.
Soviet space command quickly arranged a crewed mission to reactivate the space station to prevent it from tumbling uncontrolled toward Earth.
Yuri Gagarin was celebrated as the first man to orbit Earth. But he didn’t make a complete orbit, almost died due to equipment failures, and ejected too early — landing in a potato field.
Russia said Tuesday it will withdraw from the International Space Station project after 2024 to focus on forming its own space station.