Several years before the Space Race officially began, two suspiciously similar Hollywood movies raced to launch their lunar ...

If the Soviet Navy’s base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, had been fully established before the Nixon administration intervened to stop ...

Jeff Hessel worked at Cape Canaveral in the heyday of the U.S. space program. He now lectures about the experience to groups across Palm Beach County.

In the heat of the Cold War, the CIA pulled off one of its boldest and most secretive missions - stealing a Soviet spacecraft without the USSR ever finding out. Hidden in plain sight during a ...

Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the ...

The multi-billion dollar, decade-long undertaking, which still requires sign-off by President Vladimir Putin, calls for RUB4.5 trillion ($56 billion) in space spending, including RUB1 trillion for the ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...

The Soviet Union’s Space Research Institute, or IKI, ran a groundbreaking Venus exploration program amid the 20th century space race. Venera, as the program was called, sent a series of probes ...

a Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus has finally crash-landed back on Earth. The Kosmos 482 probe, a relic from the first Space Race, crashed harmlessly into the Indian Ocean west of ...

The Soviet Venera program achieved a number of ... “There’s an archive of the space race, still circling the Earth. There’s so much stuff that was launched in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s ...