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.

The Soviet space shuttle program came ... NASA's SLS heavy-lift rocket is actually sort of an Energia-style rocket built from Space Shuttle Launch System-derived components. The Energia was ...

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 ...

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 ...

CNN — A Russian capsule took an American astronaut ... But after 2011, when NASA retired its Space Shuttle program, Russia's Soyuz capsules were the only option for US astronauts.

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