the Russians were building an enormous causeway and two launch pads. As it turns out, the US had every reason to be worried. The closed-cycle rocket engine design. Image via Wikipedia The Russian ...

The Russian segment of the International Space ... cosmonauts and astronauts, designers and rocket builders. "Angara-1.2" puts military satellites into orbit The launch proceeded smoothly, with ...

Vakhtang Vachnadze, a Soviet and Russian space engineer who headed the project to build the Buran space shuttle ... the Salyut and Mir orbital station programs; rocket upper stages Block D and ...