On this date 56 years ago, the Soviet Union launched Soyuz 5 which would become part of the "first" space station.

The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7 ...

That was the case on Monday when a Russian Soyuz rocket endured a lightning strike shortly after takeoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The launch was being recorded by observers ...

The union of Soyuz 4 and 5 in January 1969 was dubbed by the Soviet Union as "The world's first space station" ...

Russia launched a Soyuz rocket early on Tuesday carrying two satellites designed to monitor the space weather around Earth ...

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Donald Trump said Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has asked to visit him at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Friday night. Trump says Microsoft's Bill Gates has asked to visit ...

But after seeing footage of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft crash down on the remote Kazakh Steppe 10 years ago, photographer Andrew McConnell became more enraptured by astronauts’ unceremonious ...

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos has announced that its Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft was successfully launched into the planned orbit. According to ROSCOSMOS, Soyuz-2.1a rocket, carrying the MS-23 ...

The Soviet leadership ordered Almaz hulls transferred to a crash program to launch a civilian space station. Work on the Transport Logistics Spacecraft was deferred, and the Soyuz spacecraft ...