The Soviet side of the 1960s space race is a particularly graphic example of this. Author James Oberg , a former scientist at NASA Mission Control in Houston, has been a space nut since before ...

The twentieth century Soviet space program will always be remembered as one of the greatest in the world. And these posters reveal that it also came with one of the world’s most beautifully ...

Coming two years after the Soviet triumph of "Sputnik 1" and in a flurry of Soviet successes in the space race at the height of the Cold War, the "Luna 2" certainly left its mark on the Moon. But ...

It might be another conspiracy theory, but the saga of the lost Soviet cosmonauts has persisted for many years, largely ...

The historic flight would demonstrate the superiority of the Soviet space program and, by extension, ... If there was one moment that might have verged on equality in this propaganda exercise, ...

Members of the Soviet space community decried the program as wasteful. Buran never flew again, and Moscow’s plans to build infrastructure to support the program stopped abruptly.

Members of the Soviet space community decried the program as wasteful. Buran never flew again, and Moscow’s plans to build infrastructure to support the program stopped abruptly.

The space race was a bitter competition that took place in the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

This was an approach he saw mirrored in many Soviet propaganda posters. “Space is used to represent time because time is sort of slippery and space is something we see all around us, right?” One way ...