Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s concept of a Soviet spacecraft on the surface of Venus. (Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) A defunct ...

The most persistent myth about Apollo is that the United States faked the Moon landing in a studio and somehow fooled the ...

On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship on a mission to delivery supplies ...

Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system. A cutaway diagram of the Venera 8 landing ...

The USSR’s ambitious Mars mission was initially planned to launch in 1975, but it was never executed. During the Cold War, significant advancements occurred in the fields of science and technology as ...

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March 1972 ...

Introduction: Multiple perspectives on Soviet space history -- Commanding officer Abram Krayzman -- Construction engineer Sergey Safro -- Engine designer Anatoliy Daron -- Guidance engineer Sergei ...

The spaceport in Kazakhstan was built by the USSR and is the only way to the ISS BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- The landscape approaching Russia’s spaceport in Baikonur is otherworldly. The yellow steppe of ...