Russian President Putin chairs a meeting on the development of Russian Navy in Saint Petersburg MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to ...
"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 ...
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The Cold War’s most dangerous space weapon, the Soviet Skif laser and the mission that fell back to Earth
In the late Cold War, fears of Reagan’s Star Wars program pushed the Soviet Union to secretly launch Skif, a massive space-based laser designed to counter American missile defenses. What followed was ...
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 ...
The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency overseeing the US government’s fleet of spy satellites, has declassified a decades-old program used to eavesdrop on the Soviet Union’s military ...
The most striking feature of the Almaz station was the 23mm Nudelman-Rikhter (NR-23) cannon, a modified aircraft gun adapted for use in the unforgiving vacuum of space. “This battle station is now ...
pt. I. Zero-gravity capitalists : 1988-1990. Knocking on the Soviet's door ; Perestroika in orbit ; Tricking state and NASA ; The world turns upside down ; The Mir really exists ; Aren't two routes ...
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