The closed-cycle rocket engine design. Image via Wikipedia The Russian space program was largely controlled by one man, Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov. It was his design workflow that made the Russians ...

The second chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos ... at regulators from within the White House — putting the US space program on a very different trajectory.

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were ...

The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United ... land at runways around the world has been a part of the American space program since the very beginning. In 1957, the US Air Force started the ...

Russia's Progress MS-30 (91P) spacecraft arrived at the ISS at 6:03 p.m. EST on Saturday (March 1).

Buran was designed to perform up to 100 flights and take a crew of up to 10 people into space. The Buran project involved 1,206 enterprises from all across the Soviet Union. The program was closed ...