Oct 16, 2021 · Sergey Korolev, who was an engineer and a victim of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, went on to help the Soviet Union beat the U.S. in the race to space during the Cold War. While …

Feb 3, 2023 · The Soviet Union reached a peak of 108 successful space launches in one year (1982) during the Cold War and will be on pace to pass them with 110 to 140 launches in 2023.

The N1 was the Soviet counterpart to the US Saturn V and was intended to enable crewed travel to the Moon and beyond, [6] with studies beginning as early as 1959. [7] Its first stage, Block …

The Soviet space program [2] (Russian: Космическая программа СССР, romanized: Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR) was the state space program of the Soviet Union, active …

Soyuz (Russian: Союз, IPA: [sɐˈjus], lit. 'Union') is a series of spacecraft which has been in service since the 1960s, having made more than 140 flights. It was designed for the Soviet …

On April 20, 2023, SpaceX’s Starship and its Super Heavy booster broke the record set by the Soviet Union’s N1 rocket, becoming the world’s most powerful rocket. Despite the differences …

Dec 30, 2022 · In 1980, after two decades of gradual buildup, the Soviet Union managed to launch variants of its R-7 workhorse rocket 64 times in one calendar year. 61 of those …

Dec 12, 2024 · In the early 1970s, with the joint Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the United States and Soviet Union temporarily set aside their Cold War differences. They chose cooperation over …

On July 20, 1969, our species achieved the culmination of a dream older than civilization itself: human beings set foot on the surface of another world beyond Earth. If any nation was going...

Feb 9, 2018 · But SpaceX founder Elon Musk believes that his super heavy rocket—the SpaceX Falcon Heavy—can avoid the problems faced by the Soviets. Launched this week, Musk's …