The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's Space Shuttle, developed during the peak of Cold War rivalry.

Embark on a journey to the heart of Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome, where the remnants of the Soviet Union's Buran space ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

including heat-resistant alloys and ceramic tiles—technologies that foreshadowed those used on later spacecraft like the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle. Its propulsion in orbit relied on ...

Blue Origin's all-female 11-minute flight on April 14 reminds us that there's a long line of women who have been making ...

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

In January 1986, the crew of the Challenger space shuttle took off from the launch ... Even Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet Union's national hero, received recognition despite the suspicious ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth.

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...

Even outer space isn’t safe from the pronoun police.

The Soviet Union was eager to have its cosmonaut in space first. Their choice for the ... The launch of a spacecraft is a risky operation as the shuttle and the launch pad are subjected to extreme ...