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 ...

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 Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase in response to a possible attack ...

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 ...