After a Soyuz crew landed hundreds of miles off course in the frozen Ural wilderness, the Soviet space program built a custom survival weapon designed for bears, wolves, and worst-case landings. For ...

Russia’s space program is facing a major crisis after a Soyuz rocket launch went wrong and caused severe damage to the country’s only certified launch pad for sending astronauts into space. The ...

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 ...

A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Site 31 pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan recently, carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher ...

Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder speaks during a news conference in the briefing room of the Pentagon, on May 14, 2024, in Washington, D.C. automation The United States has ...

PARIS — Moscow is reviewing a proposal to centralize its space industry in an effort to curb government waste and restore confidence in Russia’s space program following a spate of launch vehicle ...

Suspended above the Mediterranean Sea, Russia's Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft made its final approach to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 27, 2025, the same day it launched from Earth. Not only ...

The incident could strain Roscosmos’s partnership with NASA as the agency finds itself more reliant on the U.S. than ever. Reading time 2 minutes Russia’s International Space Station program is having ...

Russia's main launch facility for sending cosmonauts into space was damaged during the latest launch of a Soyuz capsule, prompting emergency repairs. The accident at the Baikonur cosmodrome will ...

How many customers does the Russian space program actually have? They've pissed off nearly everyone in the world that's not already indebted to the Kremlin for military hardware either because of the ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is due to retire soon, plunging into the South Pacific Ocean after being dragged down through Earth’s atmosphere. But perhaps not all of the space station will be ...