Soviet Space Program News

In 1968, two Central Asian tortoises orbited the Moon aboard the Soviet Zond 5 spacecraft and returned safely, demonstrating the viability of life in space and

On August 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched Luna 24, its final moon mission, which successfully returned 6 ounces of lunar soil samples to Earth. This

On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts, Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich, conducted the first zero-gravity training flight on a modified Soviet Tupolev T