It was accomplished with retrorockets, which slowed the Vostok and brought it down into a “braking zone” of gradually thickening air. There the ship was heated by friction and suffered ...

TASS/. Strategic bombers of Russia’s Aerospace Force Tupolev-95MS have successfully destroyed surface targets at a proving ground in Buryatia with cruise missiles in the Vostok-2018 exercise ...

MOSCOW, September 4. /TASS/. The active phase of the Russian army’s largest-ever exercise Vostok-2018 will be held at nine proving grounds and in the Sea of Japan and the Bering and Okhotsk seas ...

On April 14, 2025, six women aboard Blue Origin Flight NS-31 made history as the first all-female crew to fly to the edge of ...

To commemorate both of these historic flights, the Museum has put on display two 1:3 scale models of the Vostok 3KA and Mercury capsules. “The first time I looked at the models,” says Neufeld ...