The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

including heat-resistant alloys and ceramic tiles—technologies that foreshadowed those used on later spacecraft like the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle. Its propulsion in orbit relied on ...

By Sage Rohrbach An image of the New Shepard Capsule, the same capsule that carried celebrities Katy Perry and Gayle King.  Courtesy of NASA Flight Opportunities via Wikimedia Commons In 1961, ...

MOSCOW, April 16 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the ...