A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts successfully reached the International Space Station after blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on ...

On Oct. 6, 1992, the United States and Russia signed an agreement to share astronauts and cosmonauts. Known as the Agreement ...

But after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's space programme grappled with massive funding shortages, corruption and complaints from young engineers about poor management. Russia's ...

As US-Russia relations deteriorate — with president Donald Trump escalating his economic policy threats to force a ceasefire deal with Ukraine — the two countries’ intertwined space exploration ...

The nations capable of space flight are increasingly turning ambitions toward the stars, but early pioneer Russia may be ...

May 25, 2025: Roscosmos, the post-Soviet Russian space program, has proved to be less effective than its Soviet predecessor. The primary problems are incompetence and corruption. One glaring example ...

Russia’s Bion-M No.2 satellite carried flies, mice, seeds, and microbes to study the effects of space on life and test ...

MOSCOW – Back-to-back rocket launch failures have dealt Russia one of the heaviest blows to its space industry since the Soviet collapse – with national pride and billions of dollars at stake. The ...

A Russian space capsule has landed safely in the remote Orenburg steppes, completing a month-long mission that carried an extraordinary biological payload. Dubbed a “Noah’s Ark”, the spacecraft ...

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 satellite mission carried more than 1,500 animals into space is the recent Russian biological research satellite, likely ...