While NASA celebrated the launch of its first Space Shuttle in 1981, the Soviet Union was racing to build its own orbital spacecraft using publicly available American technical data and Cold War ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...

Unbeknownst to the world, as America launched its first Space Transportation system in 1981, Russia was in the middle of building its own space shuttle, the Buran, based on stolen blueprints and ...