Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth.

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut has docked with the ISS. Space is one of the ...

Although it was only briefly seen during the live webcast of its launch, the Fram2 mission's zero-gravity indicator was ...

The Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) joined the global community in celebrating humanity’s ...

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton, to ...

New collaborations give Vast direct access to the International Space Station and expand opportunities for microgravity ...

SpaceX ( SPACE) is preparing for a groundbreaking human spaceflight that will venture over Earth's polar regions — a first of ...

The four astronauts were trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, where Rakesh Sharma underwent training. Sharma is the first Indian to travel to space in 1984. Union ...

The closest any astronaut has come before to flying over the poles occurred during the early Soviet spaceflight missions that carried cosmonauts like Yuri Gagarin, according to Jon Edwards ...

Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out ...

Those who experienced it include some of the most famous names in space history, including Yuri Gagarin, Michael Collins and Sally Ride - and say only fellow astronauts can truly know what it ...