Iran on Sunday launched three domestically produced satellites from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome, sending the craft into low-Earth orbit on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket in a mission Tehran says will support ...

After nearly a decade of development, Russia’s newest launch vehicle is close to its debut flight. The medium-lift Soyuz 5 rocket is expected to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome before the end of ...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight. A 1973 artist’s concept of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, with the ...

The latest Soyuz mission to the International Space Station did more than deliver a fresh crew: it underscored how, even in a tense geopolitical climate, American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts ...

In recent comments to the Russian state-run media service TASS, the chief of Roscosmos said the country’s newest rocket, the Soyuz-5, should take flight for the first time before the end of this year.

Iran’s decision to launch three Earth-imaging satellites on a Russian Soyuz rocket marks a new phase in its space program, blending foreign launch capacity with domestically built hardware. The move ...

Through the most recent mission, STS-130 in February 2010, the shuttle has taken 788 people to orbit (“people” includes repeat fliers—so Franklin Chang Diaz’s seven flights would count as seven people ...