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 ...

"My dad was shot down over the Soviet Union," Gary says. "As a kid I thought it was normal, everybody's dad goes through this." In the thick of the Cold War, an American spy plane flew over ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 Venus spacecraft ... went into a higher 210 x 9800 km orbit. It is thought that a malfunction resulted in an engine burn which did not achieve sufficient ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

MOSCOW, April 16 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the ...