Since the Soviet Union became the second nation with nuclear weapons in 1949, American presidents have tried to ...

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Korabl-Sputnik 1, called Sputnik 4 in the West, wasn't one of the Soviet Union's greatest triumphs of the early ...

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Lockheed Martin's U-2 spy plane is perhaps the most successful surveillance aircraft ever built. First flown on

Kelsey D. Atherton at 16:27 PM Aug 21 2015

Just before dawn on the morning of November 15, 2020, the Energiya rocket stood fueled and ready on the launch pad ...

Amy Shira Teitel at 17:32 PM Jun 17 2015
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Venera was a series of satellites launched by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s to study Venus' environment. ...

Amy Shira Teitel at 08:39 AM Jan 7 2015

It's not easy to land a robot on the moon. Only the US, the former Soviet Union, and China have ...

Francie Diep at 11:58 AM Apr 8 2014
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In 1992, Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, a biologist from the Soviet Union, boarded a flight in Almaty, then Kazakhstan's ...

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