Sergei Korolev and Gagarin’s first human flight into space on April 12, 1961
Asif Azam Siddiqi is a Bangladeshi American space historian and a Guggenheim Fellowship winner. He is a professor of history with a specialization in...
Cuban Crisis Missile, the R-12. Made in Ukraine
"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...
‘Ukrainian’ Bohachevsky Function, Apollo-11 Moon Landing and Return to Orbit
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...
Ukrainians who created Nuclear Missile Shield of the USSR: Korolev, Glushko, Yangel, Chelomey
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-engineered most powerful ballistic missile SS-18 was used as Dnieper Rocket to deliver satellites...
R-36 is the world's largest and most dangerous Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) ever built. And it is solely Ukraine's know-how. Highly accurate guided missiles...
First Sputnik was launched Oct. 4, 1957. Korolev, Glushko were two major contributors to...
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,...
SpaceX turns to Ukrainian AN-124 plane for emergency delivery of oversized rocket parts to...
"Jan 3, 2018 Subject: Request for Antonov Support SpaceX requests An-124 to transport rocket hardware (payload fairing halves) to expedite processing of the coming missions.. US Domestic...
Gravitational Slingshot Trajectory adopted by Apollo-11 program to reach the Moon is named after...
New Mexico Museum of Space History: "Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk (1897-1942). Born as Aleksandr Shargei, he took a new name to avoid persecution during the...
Ukraine in Space
Sergei Korolev - the leading Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer was born in Zhytomir, Ukraine. It is due to his genius, the Soviet Union...
Ukrainian Sergei Korolev the day he was returned to Moscow prison after one year...
The man who would open space to humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907 (30 Dec 1906 old calendar), in Zhitomir,...
