During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly launched military space stations under the Almaz program, some even armed with ...

In the intense years of the Space Race, the Soviet Union pursued some of the most ambitious rocket programs ever attempted, but two catastrophic explosions would leave lasting scars on its quest for ...

In the spring of 1967, a series of unusual sightings began to grip the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Listen! Listen! Talk to me! I am hot!…oxygen…oxygen…am I going to crash?” For several ...

Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...

The USSR’s ambitious Mars mission was initially planned to launch in 1975, but it was never executed. During the Cold War, significant advancements occurred in the fields of science and technology as ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system. A cutaway diagram of the Venera 8 landing ...

Introduction: Multiple perspectives on Soviet space history -- Commanding officer Abram Krayzman -- Construction engineer Sergey Safro -- Engine designer Anatoliy Daron -- Guidance engineer Sergei ...

The Space Age past may come knocking on the world's door next week as the defunct Soviet Union's Kosmos 482 Venus lander from 1972 makes an unwelcome return home and is predicted to crash into the ...

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March 1972 ...

Space sleuths and their 'scoops' / by Dominic Phelan -- Hidden in plain view / by Brian Haryey -- The satellite trackers / by Sven Grahn -- Cosmonauts who weren't there / by James Oberg -- The view ...