The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior ...

Dr Dinesh C. Sharma uses two broad themes in his book—the ISRO story and Indians in space, with special focus on astronauts ...

By Sage Rohrbach An image of the New Shepard Capsule, the same capsule that carried celebrities Katy Perry and Gayle King.  Courtesy of NASA Flight Opportunities via Wikimedia Commons In 1961, ...

Birth of William of Orange 1731: Death of novelist Daniel ...

a pioneering Soviet engineer who kick-started Soviet Union's early space adventure. The Russian leader was speaking to university students about the country's space policy when he mentioned the ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

The physicist, one of the women who has spent the most time outside a spacecraft, discusses NASA, new technology, and what it ...

Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in flames over Texas minutes before it was to land in Florida. TV footage showed what appeared to be falling debris, as Nasa declared an emergency and warned ...

Korolev is considered the father of the Soviet space programme, developing the first satellite Sputnik as well as Vostok 1, which carried first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit in 1961.

After the war, these scientists and their rocket technology were vigorously poached by both the United States and the Soviet Union, and both sides incorporated them into their own space programs.