Sputnik 1: It was the first artificial Earth satellite, launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
Voyager 1: It was a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar ...
The Air Force once almost nuked the Moon
Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...
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Satellite images show major expansion at Russian site with secret bioweapons past
Satellite imagery over the next two years ... that Ukraine was preparing to use biological weapons against Russian forces. The Soviet Union used a similar playbook in justifying a massive ...
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Transnistria: Russian satellite or nascent state? Its leader Vadim Krasnoselsky makes his case
Westerners picture it as a relic and a reliquary of the Soviet Union, and local entrepreneurs are happy to meet the need. The result is that those who take the trouble to tour the place return with ...