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

It should come as no surprise that the Eastern Bloc powers came up with their own aerial counterparts to the A-10. Though the Republic Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II, far better known by its unofficial ...

NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

Something to look forward to: Scientists have created a laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine that could revolutionize space travel. Based on a magnetic plasma accelerator ...

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic ...

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

The rocket relied on eight Zenit rocket boosters and an upper stage of the Energia-M variety. The engines would have ... but gave up on it when the Soviet Union imploded in the 1990s, and interest ...

Russian scientists have announced the development of a plasma-powered rocket engine that could potentially reach Mars within ...

MOSCOW, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A spoof Russian news report that China's DeepSeek AI app was based on a secret Soviet code has found its way onto state TV, reflecting nostalgia in Russian society for a ...

For instance, I spent over two years in Kazakhstan researching the privatization of the Soviet space program ... wastewater to cool launch pads and rocket engines after testing.