Military Aviation History on MSN

Inside the USSR’s secret space shuttle program Buran

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built its own space shuttle to rival America’s NASA program. Called Buran, it ...

OTD In Space - January 20: 1st Progress Cargo Delivery Mission Launched

On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship on a mission to delivery supplies to the Salyut 6 space station. Since then, more than 150 Progress ...
Morning Overview on MSN

The secret Soviet mission that tricked the world into a fake moon landing

The most persistent myth about Apollo is that the United States faked the Moon landing in a studio and somehow fooled the ...
C-SPAN

U.S. Space Program

From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, & Artemis II.
The National Interest

The Soviet Union’s Forgotten Mars-Venus Mission

That’s where the USSR’s Heavy Interplanetary Vessel (TMK) comes into the picture. Conceived during the height of the Space Race of the Cold War, the TMK program endeavored to send crewed missions to ...
Gizmodo

The Saddest and Strangest Tales of Animals in Space

In February 1966, the Soviet space program launched the dogs Veterok and Ugolyok to beyond the protective Van Allen Belts, which they did to study the prolonged effects of space travel and the ...