Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History provide timely, concise, authoritative and distinctive overviews of the post-Soviet space. By providing parallel histories of the fifteen successor states, ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

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

The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United States was building a ‘space bomber’ and quickly began development of their own manned spaceplane. While this Soviet Shuttle would not be as ...

The conquest of space was the embodiment of Soviet utopia and the most important element of the great Soviet myth of a brighter future and the victory of communism — not only on terra firma ...

The Buran did fly in space – just once, in November 1988, not long before the Soviet Union collapsed. Its lone mission was uncrewed. The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence, rode on an ...

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

On November 1, 1962, the Soviet Union launched the Mars 1 spacecraft on a mission to fly by the Red Planet. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com While it did end up flying by Mars ...