Setbacks aside, the Soviet ... space centre. The Soviets were planning to land on the moon in 1967, but the unexpected illness and death of one of its most competent cosmonauts, Sergei Korolev ...

Sergei Shoigu arrived in Malaysia on a working visit on February 26. However, the main program was scheduled ... at the Eastern Economic Forum. Russian-Malaysian relations are actively developing, ...

"We didn't understand what happened. "When we discussed all this, we tried to grasp how it would affect the space program." Image: Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev smiles after returning from ...

Their 286 days in space, including the trip up in June and the descent on Tuesday, was long. But their mission was perhaps not as dramatic as the one carried out by Sergei Krikalev, a Soviet ...

At the same time, the way humanity’s presence is growing in space in recent ... accounts, Soviet work on ASAT technology began either in 1956 at the behest of Sergei Korolev and the Energia ...

The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...

The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be ...

NASA wasn’t so dependent on private companies when it conceived Project Mercury, the country’s first human spaceflight program. Given the pressures of the space race against the Soviet Union ...