The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.

A Russian Soyuz rocket is raised on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 5, 2025. Launching three days later, it carried NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts ...

Russia's space program has taken a drubbing in recent years, its reputation battered by corruption scandals, shrinking ...

Three crew members returned to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft early Tuesday morning, completing an eight-month ...

Since the Site 31 pad is the only one operated by Roscosmos capable of launching both the crewed Soyuz rocket and the ...

Explore the rise, fall, and future of Russia's space program. From its Soviet-era glory to modern-day struggles, we dive deep ...

May 25, 2025: Roscosmos, the post-Soviet Russian space program, has proved to be less effective than its Soviet predecessor. The primary problems are incompetence and corruption. One glaring example ...

The chief of Russia’s main spacecraft manufacturer issued a dire warning this week, saying that his corporation has reached a “critical” condition and cannot continue in its present state. “The ...

MOSCOW – Back-to-back rocket launch failures have dealt Russia one of the heaviest blows to its space industry since the Soviet collapse – with national pride and billions of dollars at stake. The ...

These are tough times for Russia’s civilian space program. In the last few years, Russia has cut back on the number of Soyuz crew missions it is sending to the International Space Station, and a ...

“Listen! Listen! Talk to me! I am hot!…oxygen…oxygen…am I going to crash?” For several decades, these chilling words, which screeched through a makeshift ...