The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos ... almost all the way down to South America's Cape Horn. But since most of the planet is water, “chances are good it will indeed end ...

The Soviet bomber fleet grew to over 2,000 airframes, starting with piston-engine planes and then evolving to jet-powered ...

When she heard the news of Nazi Germany surrendering 80 years ago, Valentina Efremova couldn’t believe the devastating war ...

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Efremova, now 101, was a teenager when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. She ended up serving as a nurse in field hospitals on the front and remembers the horrors of the fighting ...

It was the sacrifice of U.S. and European Allied soldiers during World War II that formed the bedrock of an alliance that has ...