25. Sergi Krikalev and Alexander Volkov were to pilot the Soyuz TM-13 reentry spacecraft to a landing in Kazakhstan - now an independent country, we reported. Krikalev was launched to the Mir in ...

But after seeing footage of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft crash down on ... the “big explosion in the sky” that marked the spacecraft’s reentry. The ground team would then assess the wind ...

On January 16, 1969, two crewed spacecraft docked in orbit for the first time. When the Soviet Union launched the Soyuz 4 ...

Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American ... It is specifically designed to withstand the rigors of reentry and ensure a safe landing. The third module houses the spacecraft's ...

The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft, launched earlier this year ... and the Descent Module (where the crew sits for launch, reentry, and landing). Two orbits after undocking, the Soyuz MS-08’s computers ...

As part of the reentry procedure at the end of his flight aboard Soyuz 5, cosmonaut Boris Volynov had to jettison his spacecraft's extra modules. But when he fired the explosive separation bolts ...

KOROLEV, December 20. /TASS/. The reentry module of Russia’s Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, carrying cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo ...

The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7 ...

A US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut were forced to make an emergency landing after their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned en route to the International Space Station (ISS). Shortly after ...

Sogaz insurer has won a tender to insure risks during the launch of a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with a manned Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft and its docking with the International Space Station MOSCOW ...

Just as the Apollo program had, the Soviet space program experienced a major setback due to a fatality. Soyuz One had taken off on April 23, 1967, with Vladimir Komarov aboard. Upon reentry ...