The Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it off the ground. Rushed, flawed, and plagued with failures, the N-1’s catastrophic ...

The rocket in question was driven by a powerful ... All in all, the Russians seemed poised to send a man to the moon. Russian technology had the Americans worried enough to spy on them with ...

TASS/. The Samara-based Kuznetsov enterprise in the Volga area plans to launch the production of new rocket engines NK-33 previously developed for the Soviet moon rocket N-1 to use them in Soyuz-2 ...

Work on the Transport Logistics Spacecraft was deferred, and the Soyuz spacecraft originally built for the Soviet manned Moon program was ... unmanned atop a Proton rocket on April 19, 1971.

TASS/. Russian cosmonauts are set to make the first landing on the Earth’s natural satellite in 2031-2040, Russia’s Chief Designer for Piloted Space Systems, Energia Space Rocket Corporation ...

In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were convinced that we would be the first to land on the moon ...

Credit: NASA Russia's Luna-25 — an unmanned space mission to explore the ice-rich area at the moon's south pole — has suddenly crashed. On Sunday, Aug. 20, Russia's state space corporation ...