In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, during, and after the Cold War reconnaissance ...

Just weeks before Apollo 11 reached the Moon, the Soviet Union attempted to launch its massive N1 rocket, the centerpiece of its secret lunar program. The result was one of the most powerful ...

During the Cold War, the space race pushed both superpowers to develop groundbreaking technology. In response to the American ...

Recent engineering setbacks, specifically regarding helium system issues associated with the improper flow of helium into the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s upper stage, and persistent hydrogen ...

FPRI had an exceptional year. We published cutting-edge research on the challenges Russia and China pose to American ...

The Strait of Hormuz Held Hostage, an Essay in Geopolitics . The Strait of Hormuz, twenty-one nautical miles wide at its ...

This article is from the 2025 Technical Update. The exact date when the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia was lost is readily ...

Russia plans to launch the Venera-D mission to Venus in 2036, continuing the Soviet Union's legacy of exploring there in the ...

President Trump gave the world the Artemis Program, and NASA and our partners have the plan to deliver. We will standardize ...

Karabash used to be called “the most polluted city in the world,” but then, in 2025, it achieved fame thanks instead to the documentary film Mr. Nobody against Putin. Now the film is up for an Oscar.

Beginning in the 1970s, U.S. government intelligence agencies investigated the existence of ‘remote viewing.’ Those files are ...

On Sept. 19, 2023, the life of the Yakhshibekyan family split into a “before” and an “after.” What had begun as an ordinary morning in Martuni turned, within minutes, into shelling, false news of ...