While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

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

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

Not many know that the first spacewalk by Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov could have ended in tragedy owing to ...

Soviet Russia's Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died on their return to Earth ...

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

Astronaut John W. Young, the pilot for Gemini III, checks over his helmet prior to flight.

After a week-long trip to the International Space Station ballooned into a nine-month stay, NASA astronauts Barry (Butch) ...

US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin confirmed last week that the U-2 and other aircraft are taking part in ...

Who else has been stuck in space? A short history of long spaceflights - NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren ...

Enthralling globalisation processes are determinants conveying economic success to be the only template of state legitimacy.

"They'll be carrying the weight of gravity as well as their space suits on their back for the ... Krikalev was on the space station Mir when the Soviet Union, which had sent him there, was ...