"CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King gears up for Blue Origin's women-led space flight in April. Here's what to know.
Gayle King will step out of her comfort zone and into a space suit alongside Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda ...
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Two Trailblazing Spacewalks in 1965 Opened the Door to Decades of Astronauts Pushing the Limits of Their Capabilities
Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...
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Modern spacesuits have a compatibility problem. Astronauts’ lives depend on fixing it
three Soviet cosmonauts visited the world’s first space station, Salyut 1. But during preparations for re-entry, the crew ...
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Against all odds: 5 greatest space survival stories
Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...
Secrets of new space race from dark death speech to astronauts who can't walk
While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...
Russian cosmonauts became the only people to die in space after spending 23 days orbiting Earth
Soviet Russia's Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died on their return to Earth ...
SpaceX launches Fram2, first crewed mission in orbit over Earth's poles
SpaceX successfully launched Fram2, the first crewed mission to orbit Earth's poles, on Monday night from the Kennedy Space ...
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OTD In Space – March 5: Soviet Space Probe Lands On Venus
On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! Venera 14 launched just five days after its identical twin, Venera 13. Both space probes ... t Wear a Suit Experts ...
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The Soviets Built a Jet Powered Train and It Was as Wild as It Sounds
For five years, the Soviet Union tinkered with the jet train, even testing it on public rails. But the project collided with ...