Terry Virts, a retired US astronaut, has called for scaling back joint missions with Russia on the International Space ...

The most striking feature of the Almaz station was the 23mm Nudelman-Rikhter (NR-23) cannon, a modified aircraft gun adapted ...

On May 31, 1990, the Soviet Union launched a new module to the Mir space station. The new component was named Kristall, and ...

Terry Virts, who has spent 213 days in space and was the ISS commander in 2015, said the station had been plunged into a ...

Terry Virts’ maiden Space Shuttle mission was the final assembly flight for the International Space Station (ISS), a historic milestone in post-Cold War collaboration with Russia. Now he’s calling for ...

The multi-billion dollar, decade-long undertaking, which still requires sign-off by President Vladimir Putin, calls for RUB4.5 trillion ($56 billion) in space spending, including RUB1 trillion for the ...

China and Russia to build a lunar nuclear power station by the year 2036 Reactor will support China–Russia joint lunar base ILRS at the Moon's s Robotic construction of the lunar plant to occur withou ...

China and Russia have reportedly finalised a deal to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by mid-2030s. Russia's space ...

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to make a crash landing back on Earth early Saturday.