A Spacecraft Landed on Earth After a Successful Mission. Inside, the Entire Crew Was Dead.

In 1971, the USSR's Soyuz 11 mission ended in a tragedy that brought both sides of the Cold War together in mourning.

One typo in space: The mistake that killed a Soviet spacecraft billions of kilometres from Earth

In 1988, the Soviet Union launched two of its most ambitious spacecraft ever built not toward Mars itself, but toward one of ...

Horror discovery as space ship opened after astronauts landed perfectly on earth

The Soyuz 11 crew were the first cosmonauts to die in the vacuum of space, but their spacecraft still managed to make a ...
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In 1965, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov stepped outside Voskhod 2 for the first spacewalk in history, and his suit ballooned so badly in vacuum that he had to blee…

On 18 March 1965, the Soviet Union sent Alexei Leonov outside Voskhod 2 for the first spacewalk in history. The mission ...
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In the same year that Soviet cosmonauts and US astronauts met in space, the Soviets tested a space cannon.

It was on January 24 1975, following the departure of the crew onboard Salyut 3, that the Soviets fired the cannon as a test.