Elon Musk walks on stage during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 20, ...

World cosmonautics are still developing Korolev's ideas and without him the USSR’s space triumphs would not have happened. Korolev can easily be called a wunderkind because he realized his first ...

For years, the man widely regarded as the "father" of the Soviet space programme answered only to the title "Chief Designer", his identity closely guarded by the state. By contrast, Korolev's ...

In April 1961 Major Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Air Force was the most celebrated person on the planet. The Beatles, to much opprobrium, later joked they were more famous than Jesus. Well, contemporary ...

It remains the one untarnished triumph of Soviet science. On 12 April 1961, a peasant farmer's son with a winsome smile crammed himself into a capsule eight feet in diameter and was blasted into space ...

Korolev, a first cousin of former player Anna Kournikova, is the first Russian to reach the Delray Beach final in the tournament's 17-year history. Korolev pummeled the 60th-ranked Rochus in the first ...

Rosol, who is 63rd in the ATP rankings, won 7-6, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2 in his first ever head-to-head meeting with the 25-year-old Korolev to give his team an unassailable 3-1 lead in the tie. Hard-serving ...