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 ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

The Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it off the ground. Rushed, flawed, and plagued with failures, the N-1’s catastrophic explosions became ...

Why being first to return to the moon matters.

Only 12 astronauts have walked on the moon. Discover who they are ... achievement was the USA's Cold War "space race" competition with the Soviet Union, which had itself become the first nation ...

Decades after the U.S. began and won a space race with the Soviet Union ... Free still believes it's a realistic goal to get astronauts back on the moon by the end of 2026. His optimism is ...

These are exciting times in space exploration ... The U.S. landed men on the moon in 1969 as part of its multi-faceted Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union. While this could all seem an ...

Just hours before, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had landed on the moon ... Soviet engineers knew it. Now, the former premier, who had led the early years of the race to ...

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 ...