MOSCOW-Russian Aerospace Forces, part of the country’s armed forces, launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a spacecraft for defence purposes, the state RIA news agency reported early on March 3 ...

US specialists working on the Orion spacecraft are confronted with the same problems as their Russian counterparts, he noted. "To my mind, the working space in the Federatsiya spacecraft is ...

Feb 28 (Reuters) - A Russian booster rocket placed the Progress MS-30 spacecraft in Earth orbit early on Friday, sending it on its way to the International Space Station with a cargo of equipment ...

(NewsNation) — A Russian module bringing cargo to the International Space Station delivered more than just supplies on Saturday — it brought a stench. When astronauts opened the Progress 90 ...

Breakthrough Starshot, a Russian billionaire's $100-million effort to explore the closest star system to our own, has launched the smallest-ever spacecraft into orbit around Earth. The six cracker ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

This left NASA with one option for getting astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) through 2018: a Russian spacecraft called the Soyuz. Russia has taken full advantage of its ...

"Together with the Russian Academy of Sciences, were are now making calculations about this flight’s ballistics and payload," he said. According to Bloshenko, the space tug will first approach ...