The Space Race was a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and American astronauts.

"The situation is critical: multi-million dollar debts, interest on loans that 'eat up' the budget, many processes that are ...

Ars Technica mentions another symptom of the Russian space program’s doldrums. Recently, the Russians launched a rocket from the R-7 family of launch vehicles for the 2,000th time.

One potential area ripe for partnership, he adds, is Venus—a world that only the Soviet-era Russian space program has ever managed to land on. It remains a tempting destination for Russia’s ...

How the U.S. and the Soviet Union Made Unsuccessful Attempts to Collaborate During the Space Race Could the moon landing have been an international program?

May 25, 2025: Roscosmos, the post-Soviet Russian space program, has proved to be less effective than its Soviet predecessor. The primary problems are incompetence and corruption. One glaring example ...

On Aug. 26, 1978, cosmonaut and pilot Sigmund Jähn became the first German to fly in space. Jähn was an experienced pilot for ...

The second chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, has been sacked in just two and a half years.

Elon Musk has hosted the family of Sergey Korolev, the legendary Soviet rocket designer who Musk says is an inspiration for Space X.

Truth be told, the Russian space program has not been the same since the fall of the Soviet Union. The decline dates back to the 1966 death of the famous “chief designer,” Sergei Korolev, the ...

Ars Technica mentions another symptom of the Russian space program’s doldrums. Recently, the Russians launched a rocket from the R-7 family of launch vehicles for the 2,000th time.