On July 3, 1969, an unthinkable event unfolded at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, as the Soviet N1 rocket, a colossal machine designed to send astronauts to the moon, exploded with unprecedented ...

The RPG-7 is one of the most iconic anti-tank rocket launchers ever made. Introduced by the Soviet Union in 1961, it has ...

Russia has developed a new rocket and a new launch site as it considers a lunar research program. After two aborted launches, the Angara-A5 was successfully test-launched.

Three configurations of the rocket were studied in the early 1960s. The first was one with a single booster so large (6.5 meters/21 feet in diameter) it would have needed to be transported over water.

The abandoned Soviet Vostok-2M Blok E rocket stage, weighing more than 3,000 pounds, "made an uncontrolled reentry over Novaya Zemlya at 1016 UTC Feb 20 after 42.7 years in orbit," tweeted ...

Russia to launch mission to rescue astronauts stranded after Soyuz coolant leak 02:04. Two days after a rare last-second launch abort, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasted off Saturday on a flight ...

Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 reentered Earth's atomosphere Saturday morning after 53 years in orbit during a failed attempt to launch into Venus. ... stranded there by a rocket malfunction.

A car-sized piece of Soviet rocket has crashed back through the atmosphere, after 53 years in orbit. "It's a half-tonne thing falling out of the sky at a couple of hundred miles an hour.

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station blasted off Saturday, two days after its launch was aborted at the last minute. The spacecraft ...