It could be a banner day for spaceflight today (Feb. 4), with five rocket launches planned in 24 hours, four of them from the ...
Animation specialist Hazegrayart put together a video of ten never-made Russian rockets and spacecraft, these are the first ...
Megaprojects on MSN2d
The N-1: The Soviet Moon RocketThe 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, ...
Yury Borisov, 68, has been removed as head of the Russian Space Agency, known as Roscomos, after a number of humiliating failures of recent launches of missiles and rockets ...
The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN12d
When Russian Radar Mistook a Norwegian Scientific Rocket for a U.S. Missile, the World Narrowly Avoided Nuclear WarThe Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase in response to a possible attack ...
Ars Technica mentions another symptom of the Russian space program’s doldrums. Recently, the Russians launched a rocket from the R-7 family of launch vehicles for the 2,000th time. The R-7 ...
From the streets of Moscow to the stars: Laika, the soviet space dog, pioneered a voyage ... intense G-forces one would experience during a rocket launch. Additionally, they were exposed to ...
The Russian Aerospace Forces conducted a satellite launch from the Plesetsk facility on February 5, for undisclosed military ...
Why being first to return to the moon matters.
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