releasing photography of early rockets and tests. The Soviet Union’s first major ballistic missile was launched for the first time in 1947. The first Soviet rocket system for studying weather ...

In 1959, lead Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Pavlovich Korolev ... was one of the few chosen to train for the early missions. Proud to serve and eager to please, Gagarin was a small young man ...

The remains of the Kharkiv air-defense bunker. The bombardment that began Russia’s wider war on Ukraine in the early morning hours of Feb. 24, 2022 was ineffective. Ukrainian brigades had ...

Historian Jeff Shesol recalls the early days of the U.S. space program, when rockets often blew up in ... In his book Mercury Rising, he describes how Soviet success in space forced a reluctant ...