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Ghosts of the Soviet space program

The USSR's space legacy is haunted by mysteries. Gagarin's capsule spun out of control during reentry while radio operators captured chilling transmissions from cosmonauts who may never have existed.
Laika was the first dog in the space but it took her life. Learn more about this heart-breaking story of animal testing.
In the 1970s, the USSR quietly armed a covert military space station under the Salyut program, then carried out a real cannon ...
A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Site 31 pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan recently, carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher ...
Essentially, then, in 2030, the Russian segment of the International Space Station will separate from the American-controlled ...
Suspended above the Mediterranean Sea, Russia's Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft made its final approach to the International Space ...
Russia plans to put a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next decade to supply its lunar space program and a joint ...
Russia aims to build a nuclear power plant on the moon by 2036 to power its lunar program and a joint Russian-Chinese ...
Russia plans to put a nuclear power plant on the moon ​in the next decade ‍to supply its lunar space program and a joint ...
Jared Isaacman, the billionaire nominated twice to lead the agency, may draw some lessons from the tenure of another NASA ...
Russia has recently unveiled an ambitious plan aiming to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon within a decade to expedite ...
With the International Space Station (ISS) set to retire in 2030, several nations and commercial space companies have plans ...