This one was full of space paraphernalia, astronaut dolls, and NASA shirts. But what caught my eye were the dog plushies in ...

"I believe that [Apollo program director George Low] certainly was concerned, and rightly so, that we could have orbited the moon ahead of the Americans. We had everything for it. That is why he ...

In an era of incredible military and technological innovations, a Soviet engineer dreamed of bringing light to desolate ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Back-to-back rocket launch failures have dealt Russia one of the heaviest blows to its space industry since the Soviet collapse — with national pride and billions of dollars at stake.

Here’s What You Need to Know: Economic problems in the Soviet Union doomed the Buran program to failure. The intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union pushed... Key Point: The ...

Russia's space program is struggling with sanctions placed on the country as a result of its war with Ukraine, and it could ...

A Russian Soyuz rocket is raised on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 5, 2025. Launching three days later, it carried NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts ...

As US-Russia relations deteriorate — with president Donald Trump escalating his economic policy threats to force a ceasefire deal with Ukraine — the two countries’ intertwined space exploration ...

The second chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos has been sacked after just two and a half years. Russia’s space chief Yuri Borisov has been replaced by former Roscosmos staffer and former ...

May 25, 2025: Roscosmos, the post-Soviet Russian space program, has proved to be less effective than its Soviet predecessor. The primary problems are incompetence and corruption. One glaring example ...