of all the abandoned places in the world there is perhaps no other place as mysterious and awe inspiring as this for over a decade these photos of what looks to be an abandoned space shuttle have made ...

The most persistent myth about Apollo is that the United States faked the Moon landing in a studio and somehow fooled the entire planet. The more closely I look at the historical record, the clearer a ...

"I believe that [Apollo program director George Low] certainly was concerned, and rightly so, that we could have orbited the moon ahead of the Americans. We had everything for it. That is why he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s concept of a Soviet spacecraft on the surface of Venus. (Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) A defunct ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...

Originally published: Challenge to Apollo : the Soviet Union and the space race, 1945-1974. Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2000. Presage -- First steps -- Stalin and ...

MOSCOW, April 16 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s ...