Sergei Krikalev was forced to orbit the Earth for months in the Soviet Union's Mir space station as his bones and muscles ...

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

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

While the Space Force makes sense in strategic and practical terms, the service’s creation marks an ominous signal for those ...

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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