The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

As we celebrate the successful flight of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station and back, I ...

On July 15, 1975, the first joint space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union blasted off into orbit. They ...

A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering ...

Ultimately, the laser pistol’s practicality was limited by its low power, the fragility of space environments, and the ...

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 country would land an astronaut on the ...

Sergey Korolev, who was an engineer and a victim of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, went on to help the Soviet Union beat the U.S. in the race to space during the Cold War. While Korolev may be not ...

To gain insight on how the Soviet Union built moon-bound gear, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) carried out a covert spy job on a Soviet exhibit in 1959.