Built in the shadows of the Cold War, Buran was the USSR’s ultimate answer to NASA’s Space Shuttle – bigger, more versatile, ...

Soviet aircraft designer Oleg Antonov completed this ambitious design in just a few months, with construction taking place in deep secrecy amid the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

Imagine a world where the Soviet Union never existed. The USSR’s rise in 1922 shaped geopolitics, economics, and ideologies ...

By envisioning a carrier with over 100 aircraft, the project aimed to enable the USSR to achieve naval superiority in the ...

In a world once dominated by Cold War giants, India entered the space race on its own terms. With rocket parts on bicycles ...

On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by sending the first living creature into space, a stray dog named Laika.

The space explorer was determined throughout his life, says Teasel Muir-Harmony, the curator of the Apollo Collection at the ...

Georgeva Gerald Wright was born in 1925, a time in life that was often called the “Roaring Twenties.” It was a period of ...

After beginning in a former burlesque house 75 years ago, Arena Stage became a model for stages nationwide, while featuring ...

Some 140 miles above France, American astronauts opened a spacecraft hatch and found themselves face to face with cosmonauts from the Soviet Union. “Glad to see you,” Col. Alexei Leonov spoke ...

President Trump has proposed building an antimissile “golden dome” around the United States. But do cinematic spectacles ...

On August 10, 1960, Discoverer 13, an Earth-orbiting satellite, was launched. A reentry capsule that was ejected from this ...