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 ...

It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...

Stafford, an astronaut who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup ... But by the time he got his wings, the war had ended.

In 1959, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted a covert operation to gain insight into Soviet space technology. The CIA targeted a Soviet exhibit showcasing a Luna 2 model to ...