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 ...

From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...