The Soviet Union, however, always believed a military installation in space would have a purpose. Several military soviet space stations were flown under in the early to mid 1970s, with one ...

Soviet engineers began work on large rockets ... When proposed in 1964, it had three parts: the Almaz military surveillance space station, Transport Logistics Spacecraft for delivering soldier ...

It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 ... though acknowledged as a major military power, was still essentially undeveloped and agrarian.

NASA October 4: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 ... delayed in part because Eisenhower insisted that the space program should be a non-military operation, and that it should not reconfigure ...

Thirty-five years after the Soviet military began departing Czechia's Milovice Air Base, armored hangars that once held MiG ...