The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior safety mechanisms. But after a single flight in 1988, the program was shelved.

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

An abandoned space shuttle site from the Soviet-era draws many urban explorers, even though it’s off limits to the public. Chris Luckhardt of Toronto, Canada, is one person who risked getting ...

Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA disapproved.

Venera 8, a Soviet probe for a set of Venus missions, was Cosmos 482's sibling spacecraft. NASA The final hours of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 space probe are ...