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 ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

A Russian military blogger has provided a candid assessment of infantry fighting vehicles' capabilities and the tactics ...

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 ...

Fellow cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya launched in August 1982, just before American astronaut Sally Ride in 1983. Although ...

authoritative and distinctive overviews of the post-Soviet space. By providing parallel histories of the fifteen successor states, interspersed with thematic studies, the series will explore both the ...

space taxi, and telescope. In ancient Greece, Aristophanes' comedy The Birds described a farcical utopia in the sky called Cloudcuckooland. In 1726, the hero of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ...

Lex & Plu Space Taxi Drivers takes viewers on a wild cosmic journey to the outer fringes of the Universe, where every new passenger means a new adventure for our unlikely group of friends. Meet Lex ...

Each time I went to the Abidjan bus terminal, groups of young men with restless, scanning eyes surrounded my taxi, putting their ... vigilant containment" of a Soviet Union that was imperially ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Space Voyage: Episode 1 - A Big Soviet Adventure Retro-style adventure that tells the story of a simple Soviet cosmonaut. Advertisement All the Latest ...

The very first car produced in Soviet-era Poland after World War II has gone on display near Warsaw after it was tracked down ...

On top of those space race defeats, the U.S. plan to topple the Soviet-backed regime of Cuban leader Fidel Castro — the so-called Bay of Pigs invasion — had failed miserably in April 1961.