Neil Armstrong while in the USSR collected a handful of soil from outside Yuri...

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"When American astronaut Neil Armstrong visited the Soviet Union after his historic flight to the Moon, he collected a handful of soil from...

Outstanding Ukrainian Rockets. Elon Musk’s Favorite – Zenith

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CNN's Rapid Fire revealed that SpaceX founder's favorite rocket after his own Falcon 9 is Ukrainian Zenith https://money.cnn.com/video/news/2015/05/13/elon-musk-rapid-fire-interview-rachel-crane.cnnmoney/index.html (For those who would like to know of...

Canso spaceport partners with U.S. company to recycle Ukrainian rockets in space

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"MLS plans to launch satellites for use in near-earth imaging, communications and scientific experiments from a spaceport it will develop in Canso, N.S. The company plans...

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,...

How China Used Ukrainian Missiles to Improve Its Own Nuclear Arsenal – National Interest

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Given all the different vectors through which rocket and missile technology are flowing from Ukraine to China, it’s reasonable to say that Ukraine...

Ukrainians who created Nuclear Missile Shield of the USSR: Korolev, Glushko, Yangel, Chelomey

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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,...

Ukraine in Space

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Sergei Korolev -  the leading Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer was born in Zhytomir, Ukraine. It is due to his genius, the Soviet Union...

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...

Ballistic missiles deployed to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 were both...

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The book 'Rockets and People' is part of the NASA History Series. It was written by the Soviet Academician Boris Chertok. The Preface to...

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...