The US Space Shuttle program is dead and buried ... and two solid rocket motors mounted to the side of the external tank. The Soviet shuttle’s launch system – ‘Energia’ – looked similar ...

The Buran relied on an automated launch sequence ... destroying the lone Soviet space shuttle. Harrison Kass is a defense and national security writer with over 1,000 total pieces on issues ...

Related: Roscosmos: Russia's space agency Monday's Soyuz launch included a pair of Ionosfera-M satellites, which will form a system for monitoring Earth's ionosphere, Reuters reported. Each has a ...

A sea monster with wings? The Soviet Union's Ekranoplan was more than a marvel—it was a game-changer. Designed to carry ...

The creation of the Energiya rocket and the Buran space shuttle became ... from all across the Soviet Union. The program was closed in 1993. The first and only launch of Buran took place on ...

The Progress MS-06 mission on the pad at Baikonur atop a Soyuz launch vehicle Kazakhs have aired their frustration over the Russia-operated space launch facility on their territory after a Kazakh ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Russia will stop sending cosmomauts to the International Space Station ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station this weekend noticed a rancid stink when they popped the hatch on Russia's Progress cargo ship that had just docked with it — and NASA says that anyone ...

A new documentary, Spacewoman, explores the inspiring story of the astronaut who led NASA's "Return to Flight" after the ...

The incident, on 11 October, was the first serious launch problem ... after Nasa's Space Shuttle programme ended in 2011. Since then, Nasa has paid Russia for seats on its Soyuz rockets to ferry ...

Russia’s State Space ... taken steps to reduce the cost of launch services for us by cutting some expenses on the Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure.

Nov 4 (Reuters) - Russia will launch two Iranian satellites into orbit ... is the first substantial effort by Iran's private space sector, a report by Iran's semi-official news agency Tasnim ...