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 ...

Sergei Krikalev was branded 'the last Soviet' after spending an unintended 311 days in the Mir space station as the Soviet ...

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

"If we cut ourselves off from the Chinese research world, both countries will be the losers," UI Professor Emeritus Gary ...

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

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

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 ...

The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior ...

Putin, who was speaking on Russia’s space policy at a meeting with students, said: ‘You know, there’s a person who lives in ...

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

He was also responsible for the first human spaceflight when the Soviet Union sent cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961. "Just like in their time the ideas of Korolev, our other pioneers ...