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The N-1: The Soviet Moon Rocket
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, ...
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Russian rocket half way to moon
MOSCOW -- A 1 1/2-ton Russian rocket was reported better than halfway on a journey to the moon today, and Radio Moscow jubilantly announced Soviet plans to establish a base there. A brief Moscow ...
Earth to Mars in 30 days? Russia's plasma engine breakthrough sparks buzz
The development of the engine is expected to make interplanetary trips much faster and expand humanity's access to worlds ...
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Russian Rocket Tech Comes In From The Cold
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 ...
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Putin axes Yuri Borisov, head of Russia's space agency
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Yuri Borisov after 2.5 years in charge of the nation's space agency Roscosmos, ...
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A year in isolation: 366-day mock moon mission wraps up in Russia
On Nov. 14, 2024, the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences marked the successful ...
Jeff Bezos space firm Blue Origin to cut a tenth of jobs
Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is reportedly laying off almost 1,400 employees, about 10 ...
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Opinion: Trump can use Russia’s space program to end the war in Ukraine
the Soviets lost the race to the moon three years later. Ars Technica mentions another symptom of the Russian space program’s doldrums. Recently, the Russians launched a rocket from the R-7 ...