YURI GAGARIN, the first human to travel into outer space, was born on March 9 1934, so let’s celebrate his birthday by remembering the time he embarrassed a British Tory government simply by being ...

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Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history as the first person to walk in space. The spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. Also, on ...

Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...

Interestingly, US listening posts situated in Turkey caught Komarov's final and furious conversation with a high-ranking ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...

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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren't the first to run late in space, and their 9½-month mission on the International Space Station falls short of any endurance record.

Back in 1967 Soviet Union, the original plan involved launching two spacecraft, Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 2, into orbit. Soyuz 1, carrying Vladimir Komarov, would launch first and wait for Soyuz 2 to ...