For decades, Russia’s manned space flight program was an engineering marvel, a low-tech, no-frills system that reliably and safely ferried scores of astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit.
With the US space shuttle fleet grounded in 2011, Soyuz and…

For decades, Russia’s manned space flight program was an engineering marvel, a low-tech, no-frills system that reliably and safely ferried scores of astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit.
With the US space shuttle fleet grounded in 2011, Soyuz and…