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 Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it ... His successful early retirement taught me 4 lessons I plan to follow.

On July 3, the secret moon rocket known as the N-1 had exploded ... In fact, the iron-fisted secrecy that had shrouded the early Soviet space program came in handy as those initial successes ...

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 ...

As Israel launched a series of intense air raids on southern Lebanon early on Sunday ... a popular wartime Soviet song of the same name, which became associated with the rocket launchers due ...

Early in the morning of October 22 ... the company that builds engines for almost every Russian rocket as well as the U.S. Atlas booster. Like Korolev, Glushko was not enthusiastic about German ...

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 ...