The Soviet Union even gave it to their Olympians, cosmonauts, and soldiers to improve their performance, boost their moods, ...

Shepherd’s MK IV – Custom variant of the MK IV suit, used by Alan Shepard. ・Soviet SK-1 – Worn by Yuri Gagarin, the first ...

It wasn’t a space walk—like the one ... spacecraft’s life support system. The suit itself doesn’t need to carry support gear.

In orbit, the astronauts aborted two spacewalks, both under unusual circumstances. Then, on October 25, one of the astronauts was hospitalized due to what NASA called an unspecified "medical issue" ...

The Soviets had even built a prototype moon suit, called the Krechet ("Golden ... ranging from cannons to laser guns into space. In 1974, the Soviet Union launched the Salyut 3 space station ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... colour for maximum propaganda effect), his suit ballooned when no longer constrained ...

Engineer Yevgeniy Shabarov recalled the dog's final moments on Earth, saying: "After placing Laika in the container and ...

The tethered Soviet spacewalker's suit stiffened so much in the vacuum of space, Lenov had to bleed off some of his suit's pressure, allowing him to finally bend the spacesuit joints to clamor ...

November 3 marks 67 years since the Soviet Union sent Laika the dog to orbit the Earth on its Sputnik 2 mission. We recall ...

authoritative and distinctive overviews of the post-Soviet space. By providing parallel histories of the fifteen successor states, interspersed with thematic studies, the series will explore both the ...

It’s extremely rare for a civilian - even a journalist - to score an edge-of-space ... Soviet Union, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. Forbes writer Jim Clash being fitted for a ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Space Voyage: Episode 1 - A Big Soviet Adventure Retro-style adventure that tells the story of a simple Soviet cosmonaut. Advertisement All the Latest ...