Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has since 1999 made reestablishing influence over Russia’s “near abroad” a ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Several months later, the U.S. sent Explorer I into space. With two small objects ...

On April 19, 1971, the Soviet Union launched the world's first space station, Salyut 1. This space station was a modified ...

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"It is not often that such people, charged with a certain idea, appear in the human population," Putin said of Musk.

The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's Space Shuttle, developed during the peak of Cold War rivalry.

India allowed the Soviet Union access to its ports for tracking and naval purposes in exchange for launch support.

a pioneering Soviet engineer who kick-started Soviet Union's early space adventure. The Russian leader was speaking to university students about the country's space policy when he mentioned the ...

MOSCOW, April 16 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the ...

On April 19, 1975, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) launched Aryabhata—the country’s very first satellite into ...