The rocket in question was driven by a powerful Russian engine unlike any ever built in the States. Although this particular engine was new, the design dated back to the space age. By the early ...

The USSR's needed to play catch up. By 1964, the Soviet rocket industry finally built the code-named L3 lunar lander, and a mammoth N1 rocket to go with it, designed to put a single cosmonaut on ...

Five people were killed and three injured following a rocket explosion on an Arctic naval test range in Russia on Thursday, state nuclear company Rosatom confirmed. Rosatom said the accident ...