A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules launched separately and brought together in orbit. A quarter-century later, in 1987, this concept became reality when ...
The U.S. satellite aptly named Explorer 1 not only ... the Soviets never attacked any of them. More benign Soviet stations such as the Salyut 4 were utilized in research and tests similar to ...
The astronaut had to extend his space voyage. But, little did he know that he would be the last man standing on his return to ...
It is 400 metres thick and it once housed a Soviet research station. Satellite images from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellite, processed by the British Antarctic Survey ...
4. This country was never in a race with Russia to get the first satellite into orbit. Ike Declaration on Russian Bid WASHINGTON, Oct. 9--President Eisenhower ruled out today any joint Soviet ...
On September 13, 1959, the Soviet Union achieved a significant milestone with the Luna 2 mission, successfully crashing a spacecraft onto the Moon and placing metallic pennants with the U.S.S.R.'s ...