On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship on a mission to delivery supplies to the Salyut 6 space station. Since then, more than 150 Progress ...

“Listen! Listen! Talk to me! I am hot!…oxygen…oxygen…am I going to crash?” For several decades, these chilling words, which screeched through a makeshift ...

Introduction: Multiple perspectives on Soviet space history -- Commanding officer Abram Krayzman -- Construction engineer Sergey Safro -- Engine designer Anatoliy Daron -- Guidance engineer Sergei ...

Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...

After a 1965 off-course landing stranded cosmonauts in a frozen Ural forest, the Soviet program created the TP-82, a purpose-built survival gun meant for Earth’s harshest terrain, not space combat. It ...

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 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 ...