The rocket in question was driven by a powerful Russian engine unlike any ever built in the States. Although this particular engine was new, the design dated back to the space age. By the early ...

Russian scientists at Rosatom's Troitsk Institute are developing a plasma propulsion system that could change space travel. The new plasma rocket engine is poised to accelerate spacecraft to ...

MOSCOW, June 6. /TASS/. The firing tests of Russia’s RD-181 engines held before the launch of an Antares carrier rocket on May 21 this year proved the possibility to use them multiple times ...

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 ...

The Samara-based Progress Space Rocket Center in the Volga area has received the first four tested engines for the third ... UNSC consultations on Syria — Russian mission "We expect the Danish ...

The Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it off the ground. Rushed, flawed, and plagued with failures, the N-1’s catastrophic ...