First Sputnik was launched Oct. 4, 1957. Korolev, Glushko were two major contributors to...

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Asif Azam Siddiqi is a professor of history with a specialization in the history of science and technology. When the Soviet archives opened in the 1990s,...

Water ice in the Korolev crater on Mars

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"The stunning Korolev crater in the northern lowlands of Mars is filled with ice all year round owing to a trapped layer of cold Martian air...

Ukrainian Sergei Korolev the day he was returned to Moscow prison after one year...

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The man who would open space to humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907 (30 Dec 1906 old calendar), in Zhitomir,...

Ukraine reactivates unique S-300V1 strategic air defence system

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The unique features of S-300V1 air defense system consist in that is the world’s only truly mobile Anti Ballistic Missile system. The S-300V...

Firefly Aerospace to Build Production Facility at Cape Canaveral Launch Site

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"Over the next two years, Firefly Aerospace completed hot-fire tests of its first and second stage engines, opened a research and development center...

UK-Ukrainian launch vehicle developer Skyrora to establish smallsat launch site, – SkyNews

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"U.K.-based Skyrora has unveiled plans to host a suborbital test flight in the fourth quarter of 2018. As part of its strategy to meet...

Cuban Crisis Missile, the R-12. Made in Ukraine

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"The first enterprise was the Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-586) formed at the plant in  Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine by an order of the Council of Ministers...

Sergei Korolev and Gagarin’s first human flight into space on April 12, 1961

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Asif Azam Siddiqi is a Bangladeshi American space historian and a Guggenheim Fellowship winner. He is a professor of history with a specialization in...

Unfinished AN 225 airplane lies hidden in Kyiv warehouse – CNN

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Antonov, however, says finishing the build should be relatively simple.Growing private sector interest in space exploration, tourism and communications -- and the prospect...

‘Ukrainian’ Bohachevsky Function, Apollo-11 Moon Landing and Return to Orbit

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One of the most popular posts on Reddit recently with over 50,000 likes was the one in the 'Today I Learned' section with the...