During the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched one of the most ambitious aerospace programs in its history: the ...

The Soviet Union envisioned a colossal ground-effect launch platform capable of carrying a two-part orbital spacecraft to the equator for low-cost space launches. Building on earlier ekranoplan ...

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 ...