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The day the Soviet Union fired a cannon in space, inside the Cold War’s secret orbital weapons program
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union quietly transformed civilian space stations into armed military platforms, culminating in the only known cannon ever fired in space. Decades later, declassified ...
Today is Friday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2026 with 349 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury and ...
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The first vertebrates to reach the moon were Soviet tortoises, Zond 5, the 1968 lunar flyby, and the secret biology mission
In September 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 mission looped around the Moon and returned safely to Earth with two tortoises and a hidden biological payload, a quiet first in the lunar race. What came ...
In the aftermath of the U.S. military strike that seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, 2026, the Trump ...
Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...
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