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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, ...
February 3, 1950, is remembered as the day the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on ...
John Malkovich may be playing the goofy baddie Red Ghost, the perfect weirdo for Fantastic Four: First Steps. The first trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps brims with 1960s Marvel goodness. We’ve ...
Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The next Sputnik Moment will take place against the backdrop of great power competition, as it did in the 1950s. This time, ...
Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...
The Znamya project had the potential to change the world. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that was ...
I was 20 years old and a member of the 7th Cavalry near the DMZ in South Korea when the first Space Shuttle was launched in 1981. The launch took place, not intentionally, on the 20th anniversary ...
There is a massive space-age exhibition happening right now at BITEC BURI: the Space Journey Bangkok. Whether you are a ...
SPADEX has been a significant achievement by ISRO and is a major step forward for future robotic and crewed missions.
There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn ...