Before the Space Race, American soldiers and sailors competed against the Soviets to launch balloons high into the upper ...

The New Space Race Since the last landing on the Moon by Apollo 17 in 1972, men have not ventured into space further than near-Earth orbit. This can also be considered the date at which space ...

Laika, a Soviet dog, earned her place in history as the first living being to orbit Earth in 1957. Launched aboard Sputnik 2 ...

No need to panic. That cracking sound you heard at the start of the December Foal Sale was just Shirley Anderson-Jolag ...

Tragically, Komarov knew he was about to die as his final words were overheard by the US listening posts in Turkey. He was ...

The film is based on a real-life incident that saw CIA operatives plot to disassemble and inspect one of the Soviet Union spacecraft ... story set during the space race," Maysh tells Space.com.

Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, became an international icon as the first living being to orbit Earth.

paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race – when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time ...

The Starship's many engines are isolated from each other, preventing the risk of one engine failure causing failure of all as in the case of the Soviet Union's N1 rocket, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on ...