Animation specialist Hazegrayart put together a video of ten never-made Russian rockets and spacecraft, these are the first ...
It could be a banner day for spaceflight today (Feb. 4), with five rocket launches planned in 24 hours, four of them from the ...
The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.
The Sea Dragon, a 490-foot behemoth, would have been built of inexpensive steel and launched from the sea, minimizing ground infrastructure.
An improved version of it launched Yuri Gagarin into space. Russia has been relying on variants of the R-7 ever since. As Russian rocket development has stagnated, the U.S. has increasingly relied ...
which for political reasons wanted the nonmilitary but still unperfected Vanguard rocket to do the job. More than a year later, after Russia launched the Space Age with Sputnik 1, a Jupiter C was ...