Military Aviation History on MSN

Inside the USSR’s secret space shuttle program Buran

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built its own space shuttle to rival America’s NASA program. Called Buran, it ...
PBS

The Soviet Lunar Program & the Space Race

"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 ...
Dark Space Official on MSN

The Soviet space gun, why cosmonauts carried a triple-barrel survival weapon for bears and wolves

After a Soyuz crew landed hundreds of miles off course in the frozen Ural wilderness, the Soviet space program built a custom survival weapon designed for bears, wolves, and worst-case landings. For ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How the U.S. and the Soviet Union Made Unsuccessful Attempts to Collaborate During the Space Race

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 ...
The National Interest

The Forgotten Soviet Plan to Beat the US to Mars

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 ...
The New York Times

Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of Half a Century

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 ...
insider.si.edu

Voices of the Soviet space program : cosmonauts, soldiers, and engineers who took the USSR into space / [edited by] Slava Gerovitch

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

U.S. Space Program

From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, & Artemis II.