Soviet engineers began work on large rockets in the 1930s ... Soviet bloc countries or countries sympathetic to the Soviet Union. Vladimir Remck of Czechoslovakia, the first space traveler ...

The Soviet Union also captured V-2 hardware and production facilities, which subsequently influenced the design of their early rocket designs as well. In many ways, the V-2 rocket was the spark ...

The defunct Soviet Cosmos-2004 satellite may collide ... that the Cosmos-2004 satellite and a stage of a foreign carrier rocket may simultaneously cross the same flight trajectory," the Roscosmos ...