According to a paper published in a recent issue of the scientific journal Solar System Research, a Russian expert was recently able to discover what appears to be Venusian lifeforms, in old pictures.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet Union dispatched a series of space probes to our neighboring planet, includi... |
24 January 2012
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Sputnik 1 is undoubtedly one of the most important spacecraft in human history, as it represents the first artificial satellite to be placed in low-Earth orbit. The maneuver took place on October 4, 1957, which yesterday had its 54th anniversary.
The satellite was launched aboard a Sputnik rocket, from Site No.1/5... |
5 October 2011
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Let's recap the concepts first. E99 is a weird element featuring a lot of properties that seem to transcend the limits of modern physics. It's only found in one area, a remote island off the Eastern coast of the Soviet Union, called Katorga-12.The Communist party is looking for an advantage over the United ... |
8 July 2010
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Using data collected by a NASA spacecraft, experts were finally able to rediscover a long-lost, Soviet-built reflecting device on the surface of the Moon. The exact location of the scientific payload has remained a mystery since September 14, 1971. At that date, the Soviet Union lost contact with its Lunokhod 1 rover... |
27 April 2010
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Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently managed to retrieve dozens of radioactive sources from a Lebanese research facility, where they had been left to decay for the better part of the last ten years. The active cobalt, which has now been repatriated, was a potential source of material fo... |
14 September 2009
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A panel of US appeal judges ruled on Friday that the US government did not have to pay for the damage it had caused on two Pacific atolls, Bikini and Enewetak, places where the country ran an extensive nuclear testing program between 1946 and 1958, detonating more than 67 warheads. At the height of the Cold War, this... |
2 February 2009
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When the Soviet Union collapsed, it left behind several nations that were entirely reliant on the communist giant to survive. These countries, along with a few others in Asia, including China and India, are now on a steep ascending curve, in what regards the amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHG) ... |
18 November 2008
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On 3 November 1957, the Soviet Union launched a Sputnik 2 spacecraft carrying the first animal in space, a dog called Laika. The animal died a few hours after returning on Earth, probably due to stress and overheating caused by the thermal control system of the Sputnik spacecraft. Yesterday, Russian officials unveile... |
12 April 2008
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More than 42 years ago, the Soviet Union launched what is now known as the first human-built spacecraft to enter the orbit of another celestial body except Earth. Luna 10 liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launchpad - today in Kazakhstan - on 31 March 1966, and on 3 April 1966 at 18:44 UTC it entered in orbit aroun... |
29 March 2008
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) proposed the removal of the .SU domain which represents the Soviet Union. The decision is quite a logical one if we think that the Soviet Union was divided in multiple countries in 1991. In case you didn't know, the domain names are based on the ISO ... |
21 September 2007
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