Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...
The history of space exploration is filled with pioneering figures, but few are as iconic as Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. Her historic flight on June 16, 1963, was a monumental ...
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight. A 1973 artist’s concept of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, with the ...
Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system. A cutaway diagram of the Venera 8 landing ...
50 years after a historic handshake in space, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project's legacy still resonates
The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a century ago today (July 17). When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...
After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time Saturday, according to Roscosmos, ...
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