Russia's first space launch in 2025 also marked the final mission of its Soyuz-2.1v light launcher, with the country ...

It was built by Russia under a contract from NASA. In case of a launch failure ... Module was launched to the ISS in 2010 onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The module was intended to be a ...

The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence ... destroying the lone Soviet space shuttle. Harrison Kass is a defense and national security writer with over 1,000 total pieces on issues ...

After a relatively short period of just two and a half years, the chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, Yuri ...

The US Space Shuttle program is dead and buried ... and two solid rocket motors mounted to the side of the external tank. The Soviet shuttle’s launch system – ‘Energia’ – looked similar ...

The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Russia will stop sending cosmomauts to the International Space Station ...

While the U.S. and Russia began the space race as competitors ... that a piece of foam insulation had struck the shuttle’s left wing during launch, causing critical damage that ultimately ...

Russia’s State Space ... taken steps to reduce the cost of launch services for us by cutting some expenses on the Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure.

Finally, there is a mysterious launch from Russian space agency Roscosmos, with an unknown payload scheduled to launch using a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 10 p.m. ET. The previous ...

It was actually inferior to the Soviet system ... important shuttle flights. Launch Complex 39 will continue to support groundbreaking journeys in the human exploration of space well into the ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...