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The first living creature ever to orbit the Earth was a frightened Moscow stray named Laika, sent into space in 1957 inside a craft...
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The first living creature ever to orbit the Earth was a frightened Moscow stray named Laika, sent into space in 1957 inside a craft...
After almost 30 years in the shipyard, Russia's nuclear battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov, the most heavily armed surface warship in the world, has finally returned...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
In October 1967 the Soviet Union announced that Venera 4 had landed on Venus. It hadn't — the probe was crushed 17 miles up,...
The Soviet Union built armored titanium tanks to survive Venus. The United States never built a lander at all. Every American Venus probe was...
They beat the heat, the pressure, and the sulfuric acid. What kept beating them was the lid over the lens. On October 22, 1975,...
A titanium sphere built to land on Venus. A timer set wrong. Fifty-three years stranded in orbit around the wrong planet. When the toughest...
The Soviet Union launched Venera 13 and Venera 14 in late 1981 with the objective of surviving long enough on the surface of Venus...
Behind its Cold War neutrality, Sweden was quietly preparing to go nuclear. Saab designed the Saab 36 "Vargen," a Mach 2, delta-wing bomber built...
The MiG 1.44 was meant to be the Soviet Union's F-22 — a supercruising, internally-armed fighter to dominate 21st-century air combat. Instead it became...