Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...

Musk has hosted the grandson of Sergey Korolev at SpaceX. MOSCOW -- In September, a Russian man and his son rented a Tesla and set off to meet Elon Musk following a personal invitation from the ...

Two disasters defined Soviet space tragedy. The N1 rocket created history's largest non-nuclear explosion while the Nedelin catastrophe killed the program's top leadership. The blasts that ended ...

The Russian space program is run by Roscosmos, a state-owned corporation that has a budget of nearly three billion dollars a year and provides employment for about 250,000 people, including the many ...

May 25, 2025: Roscosmos, the post-Soviet Russian space program, has proved to be less effective than its Soviet predecessor. The primary problems are incompetence and corruption. One glaring example ...