On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship on a mission to delivery supplies to the Salyut 6 space station. Since then, more than 150 Progress ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth. Laika was a 3-year-old stray ...

The story of Laika, the first dog in space, has been shrouded in legend, misinformation, and propaganda since she first reached Earth’s orbit in 1957. This article digs into what really happened to ...

After two cosmonauts vanished into a frozen forest in 1965, the Soviet space program quietly built a dedicated survival weapon for landings gone wrong. This story follows the TP-82, the myths around ...