Chertok couldn't whisper a word about the project through much of his lifetime. His name, and that of Sergei Korolyov, the chief scientist, were a state secret. Today, at age 95 and talking to a small ...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has invited American businessman, founder of the space company SpaceX Elon Musk to visit the Serhiy Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics, located in Zhytomyr. "Today ...

When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score a stunning ...

MINSK, 29 March (BelTA) – Belarus’ first woman cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya and Oleg Novitsky, currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), communicated with children who gathered in the ...

MOSCOW — His work and even his name were once top Soviet secrets. It wasn’t until after his death that Sergei Korolyov became known to the world as the man who led the team that put the world’s first ...

As a century falls since the birth of the late Soviet space pioneer, Sergei Korolyov, BBC News looks at the stark contrast between a life spent in the mines of the Gulag or in secrecy, and his ...

Russian space enthusiasts are kicking off a year of major anniversaries on Friday with ceremonies marking the centenary of the birth of Sergei Korolyov, the founder of the Soviet space program and ...

Has Vladimir Putin just crowned a new spy chief? It certainly seems that way. On Thursday, Putin’s chief spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Sergei Korolyov has been appointed as a deputy director ...

ST.PETERSBURG -- A court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, has arrested a well-known documentary filmmaker, Vsevolod Korolyov, for allegedly "disseminating fake news" about the Russian ...

As a century falls since the birth of the late Soviet space pioneer, Sergei Korolyov, BBC News looks at the stark contrast between a life spent in the mines of the Gulag or in secrecy, and his ...