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 ...

Sixty years before pop star Katy Perry's 10-minute spaceflight, a factory worker from the Soviet Union created history, ...

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

Embark on a journey to the heart of Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome, where the remnants of the Soviet Union's Buran space ...

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 ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth.