As such, Soyuz also carried special symbols commemorating ... as World War II was known contemporaneously within the Soviet Union. The mission is the first Russian resupply flight of the year ...

TASS/. In creating its own national spaceship Gaganyaan India turned to the Soyuz family of Russian spacecraft for inspiration, the first Indian cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Rakesh Sharma ...

October 24, 1960 - The first space-related fatalities occur when a rocket explodes at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, killing 165 people, including Air Marshal Mitrofan I.

the parachute becomes tangled and Soyuz 1 slams into the ground at high speed, killing Komarov. It is the first death to occur during a space flight. September 14: The Soviet Union sends Zond 5 ...

The gossip in Swedish seaports last week was that the 35,000-ton Sovietsky Soyuz (the Soviet Union), the U.S.S.R.’s first battleship, was making trial runs in the eastern Baltic. It was the ...