The Soviet space program had a lot of hope riding ... Also known as Kosmos 482, the lander probe weighed in at over 1,000 pounds at launch and was stocked with instruments designed to study ...

The Alexeyev/Sukhoi Albatros launch system, proposed in 1974, would have launched a Soviet space shuttle on the back of a carrier spaceplane, launched off the back of a hydrofoiling barge.

Why was the Soviet shuttle's triumphant launch its first and last ... the first person to come up with the idea of an aircraft-style orbital vehicle that could land on a runway just like an ...

Since NASA retired the space shuttle in 2011 ... a planned city was built up to service the launch pads, eventually completed in typical Soviet style around a central square with a Vladimir ...

But the growth of the U.S. space shuttle program during the early 1970s ignited Soviet interest in producing ... from space with a fine airplane-style landing controlled entirely by computer.

NASA set to launch Russian cosmonaut for first time on Crew Dragon Crew-5 marked the first time a Russian cosmonaut flew on an American-made vehicle since the space shuttle program. NASA agreed to ...