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How does the Soyuz spacecraft operate?

Explore the Soyuz Spacecraft, in use since the 1960s, and discover how it transports cosmonauts to the International Space ...
The Diplomat

The Soyuz-5 Will Transform Kazakhstan into a New Space Power

*Update: The Kazakh Telegraph Agency (KazTAG) announced on April 30 that the Soyuz-5 “Sunkar” rocket successfully launched at 11pm Astana time. In April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin travelled into ...
Ars Technica

With a new Soyuz rocket, Russia seeks to break its Ukrainian dependency

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.
Ars Technica

A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites

Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts-born physicist, launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket on this date 100 years ago. It was not an overly impressive flight. The rocket, fueled by gasoline and ...