The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's Space Shuttle, developed during the peak of Cold War rivalry. On the surface, it looked nearly identical - but its origins tell a deeper ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...

During the height of the space race, the Soviet Union proposed a flying sea platform capable of launching spacecraft directly into orbit. This ekranoplan design would transport a space shuttle system ...

The former Soviet Union's Cosmos 482, a failed Venus mission from March 31, 1972, reentered Earth's atmosphere after decades in orbit. Its lander component made an uncontrolled descent, impacting the ...