Animation specialist Hazegrayart put together a video of ten never-made Russian rockets and spacecraft, these are the first ...
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The N-1: The Soviet Moon Rocket
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, ...
The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Yuri Borisov after 2.5 years in charge of the nation's space agency Roscosmos, ...
Russia's first space launch in 2025 also marked the final mission of its Soyuz-2.1v light launcher, with the country effectively running out of its supply of motors for the rocket type. The Soyuz-2.1v ...
(They said America's Atlas ICBM, which extra stages added for space-probe purposes, could send a payload as big as that of the Russian rocket to the vicinity of the moon. They added, however ...
From the streets of Moscow to the stars: Laika, the soviet space dog, pioneered a voyage ... intense G-forces one would experience during a rocket launch. Additionally, they were exposed to ...
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. The R-7 ...
The capsule would soon rendezvous and dock to the Soyuz 4 capsule becoming – as the Soviet’s declared – the world’s first space station. During the mission, two cosmonauts performed a ...
30 years after the Norwegian rocket incident. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY2.0 When the Cold War ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union ...
The Russian Aerospace Forces conducted a satellite launch from the Plesetsk facility on February 5, for undisclosed military ...