In 1987, on December 6, 250,000 people attended the largest march about the Jewish community. The “Freedom Sunday” March in Washington, DC, was the height of the Soviet Jewry advocacy campaign.

On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! Venera 14 launched just five days after its identical twin, Venera 13. Both space probes spent four months traveling to ...

A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to ...

On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would later carry the first cosmonauts into space.

A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed to make a soft landing on Venus — but instead remained trapped in Earth orbit for decades — likely fell from the sky early Saturday morning, according ...

The 1,100-pound module, known as Kosmos 482, was part of a craft initially bound for Venus when it launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the then-Soviet Union in March 1972, NASA said in a ...

Light aircraft inside a Soviet-made warplane hangar in March 2025. Today, in shelters designed for Soviet fighter jets, small sports planes are kept in some of the most secure conditions in Europe.

Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission.. The 50-year-old lander probe returned to Earth early Saturday, May ...

More than 500 rabbis–Orthodox, Conservative and Reform–representing congregations in New York City and vicinity as well as in New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, staged an impressive ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...