The Soviet Union envisioned a colossal ground-effect launch platform capable of carrying a two-part orbital spacecraft to the equator for low-cost space launches. Building on earlier ekranoplan ...

These are tough times for Russia’s civilian space program. In the last few years, Russia has cut back on the number of Soyuz crew missions it is sending to the International Space Station, and a ...

The Experimental Passenger Orbital Aircraft program, also known as Spiral, was a Soviet secret project created to develop an ...

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The spaceport in Kazakhstan was built by the USSR and is the only way to the ISS BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- The landscape approaching Russia’s spaceport in Baikonur is otherworldly. The yellow steppe of ...

The ISS in 2000 bore little resemblance to today's sprawling outpost. Its iconic solar arrays had yet to arrive, and the ...

The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who ...