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A Soviet spacecraft that's been stuck in low Earth orbit ever since it launched in 1972 has finally crashed back down to our planet. Kosmos 482 rocketed into space more than 50 years ago on a ...

Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking. The Russians indicated it came down over the Indian Ocean, but some ...

A NASA astronaut and two Russian crewmates arrived at the International Space Station. Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican says How John Daly Makes Nearly $1M at The Masters ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Indeed, Russian crew members have been hard at work identifying several leaks located in the country's segment of the space station. Other notable equipment failures include two coolant leaks ...

NASA's iconic Space Shuttle is arguably one of the best things America has made thanks to its sleek looks, its use in the launch of the International Space Station and its contribution to our ...

It should have been a routine mission to ferry about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the International Space Station, but when Russian cosmonauts opened the hatch to a cargo spacecraft ...

Something the world never got to know: the MTKVA. Unlike the space shuttle, which came as a central body with wings, the Russian idea was a lifting body design with no such things, that was deemed ...

An abandoned space shuttle site from the Soviet-era draws many urban explorers, even though it’s off limits to the public. Chris Luckhardt of Toronto, Canada, is one person who risked getting ...

none were as curious—and blatant—as the Soviet Space Shuttle. The American Space Shuttle program was designed to create a spacecraft that could act as an inexpensive, reusable connector ...