That said, Langbroek believes Kosmos 482’s orbital inclination of 51.7 degrees means it could reentry between the 52N and 52S latitudes (basically anywhere as far north as the United Kingdom and as ...

Following the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik in 1957, space art was strongly influenced by ... and comfort. HOPE (Human Outer Planet Exploration) is a design for a vehicle that could take ...

A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human ... the featured on this cover art. University of Florida Press Cathleen S. Lewis, a curator in the space history department at the ...

The goal of the mission was to compare the impact of outer space on male and female bodies, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. Her mission would be compared to the journey of cosmonaut ...

Perhaps ironically, considering the portrayal of space stations in Western media, virtually all of the space stations launched during the 20th century were Soviet ... the 1967 Outer Space Treaty ...

A year later, the U.S. and the Soviet Union signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty, formally making nuclear weapons in outer space taboo. Earlier this year, reports of Russia developing a nuclear ...

Following a series of nuclear tests in outer space in the 1960s by both the US and the Soviet Union, a shared understanding of their destructiveness and threat to the Earth’s atmosphere ...