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 off the ground. Rushed, flawed, and plagued with failures, the N-1’s catastrophic ...

The rockets were designated as M-13, where "M" stood for "Mina" (mine in Russian), and "13" represented the caliber (132mm) of the rockets. The rockets were simple, unguided, and stabilised with a ...

Historian Jeff Shesol recalls the early days of the U.S. space program, when rockets often blew up in test launchings, and no one was sure John Glenn would make it through America's first orbital ...

Early in the morning of October 22, 1946, Soviet soldiers showed up at the homes of top technical workers and informed them that they would be deported to work at various Soviet industrial ministries.

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 ...