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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Soyuz that brought the first UK astronaut back to Earth and the only ...