Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, at 1928 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan using the R-7 ...

The Mercury Rocket was supposed to put the U.S. ahead, but despite its early victories, it was quickly replaced. Why? Find out the fascinating history behind this pioneering spacecraft.

Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental R-7 rocket, powered by liquid oxygen mixed with kerosene, from launch facilities that are still functional and no less remote today in Tyuratam ...

As rocket technology improved and spaceflight ... the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into orbit. Just a month after propelling the first satellite into space, the Soviet Union had made headlines ...

The rocket that lifted Laika to space was dubbed Sputnik 2, but that concealed its ominous pedigree: it was actually a modified R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile. Western media covered the ...

The USSR had launched Sputnik in October ... It was time to use their ace in the hole: the Redstone rocket, a direct descendant of the V-2s designed during WWII. The only problem was the propellant.

The Soviet leader was right about the importance of Sputnik, technologically as well as militarily: the R-7 rocket that put the payload in orbit was principally used as an intercontinental ...

The Soviet rocket that launched Sputnik into space produced a thrust that was a few times stronger than that of an American-made rocket, a claim that was doubted by many US officials at that time.

A delegation from Myanmar, led by Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing, has arrived in Russia's southern region of Samara on an official visit to explore advancements in the country's rocket and space ...