Sixty-two years ago today, on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to venture beyond Earth’s atmosphere into space. The achievement rocked the world, not only ...

China said it is “gravely concerned” about President Donald Trump‘s ambitious Golden Dome project, and warned that it could ...

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 ...

Another would be deployment of anti-satellite weapons, which, like nuclear weapons, would violate the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that Washington and Moscow signed. Russian ASATs would take on a ...

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 ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine ...

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 ...

which provides for the exclusively peaceful use of outer space, and must be strongly condemned by the international community. Russian news agency Tass identified Vorontsov in October 2021 as ...

That’s not to say that legal arguments can’t be made that the Russian missile test didn’t violate a portion of the cornerstone of international space law, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty ...