A new ekranoplan, or ground-effect vehicle, design emerging from China was first noted earlier this week. Now a new image ...

On September 18, 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 spacecraft managed to circle the Moon. The achievement beat NASA’s iconic ...

Vladimir Komarov wasn't to know that the Soyuz 1 mission in 1967 would be his last. The Soviet cosmonaut had successfully made it to space and back three years earlier, and was backed again to ...

Among the crowd, the Global Times reporters noticed that one family stood out in particular: that of Komarov Ilya. His wife and daughter wore Soviet Red Army uniforms and held Soviet Victory Flags ...

The Russians posthumously awarded Komarov his second Gold Star and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, gave him a fitting funeral in Red Square, buried his ashes in the Kremlin wall and planned ...

It's all too easy to talk about U.S. and Soviet Union space exploration, plus a few international collaborations, and forget other players — like Brazil. In 2003, Space Today Online explained ...

The burning remains of the Soviet Soyuz 1 spacecraft when it crashed to Earth after its parachute failed to open, on April 23, 1967, killing cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov instantly.

Cosmonaut's chilling last words in final transmission as he fell from space Vladimir Komarov became the first human to die in a space flight ...