MOSCOW -- A 1 1/2-ton Russian rocket was reported better than halfway on a journey to the moon today, and Radio Moscow jubilantly announced Soviet plans to establish a base there. A brief Moscow ...

The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet ... around the moon when we did, because they were so close. Their Lunar Module vehicle, the N1, obviously ...

Nedelin, the head of Soviet rocket forces. The accident is officially ... February 1969 – The Soviet Union’s N1 Moon booster explodes during its first test flight, killing 91 people on the ...