In the early 1950s, US planes were conducting low-flying recon missions over the USSR. But there were constant ... the development of a top secret, high-altitude recon aircraft dubbed Project ...

The Soviet Union wanted an aircraft that would trump ... discovering that while it was a fast and capable high-altitude rocket, its weaknesses included poor low-altitude performance and enormous ...

Russian paratroopers have performed the world’s first ever jumps from an altitude of 10,000 meters ... Ilyushin Il-76 military transport planes. Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted roughly ...

Although the scientists had notified dozens of countries, including Russia, in advance of their high-altitude scientific experiment, the information never made its way to Russia’s radar technicians.

While it may not be on most Americans’ radar, Russians have long known about it — and the Soviet Union even gave it to ... a succulent that grows in cold, high-altitude climates — and ...

While the device is deceptively simple, it is possible to get a balloon to very high altitudes without ... though. The Soviet Union was keenly interested in Piccard’s flight, and the Soviet ...