An artist’s concept of a Soviet spacecraft on the surface of Venus. 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 ...

On Sept. 29, 1977, the Salyut 6 space station launched into orbit. This was the eighth space station the Soviet Union ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Back-to-back rocket launch failures have dealt Russia one of the heaviest blows to its space industry since the Soviet collapse — with national pride and billions of dollars at stake.

"I believe that [Apollo program director George Low] certainly was concerned, and rightly so, that we could have orbited the moon ahead of the Americans. We had everything for it. That is why he ...

We ventured deep into the Kazakhstan desert to uncover one of the Soviet Union’s most secretive and ambitious Cold War projects: the abandoned Buran space shuttles. Hidden inside massive hangars at ...

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 ...