In the mid-1980s, one man had a dream – a dream of a flying city that would be almost 10 times bigger than the Soviet Un ...

In the 1960s, Soviet engineer Robert Bartini envisioned an aircraft unlike anything else—a flying machine that could take off vertically, skim across water, and detect submarines. The result was ...

Soviet engineers began work on large rockets in the 1930s. In May 1955, work began on the Baikonur launch site in central Asia. In August-1957, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile ...

NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and American astronauts. Though it was ...