Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible ... but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended.

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

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

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 ...

SpaceX is preparing for a groundbreaking human spaceflight that will venture over Earth's polar regions — a first of its kind. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South ...

Next month, Korean-American astronaut Jonny Kim (41), who will ... Currently undergoing final training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia's Star City, he participated in ...

The astronauts on board had no idea that launch ... Vladimir Komarov was to go on Soyuz 1 with Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space) as his backup. However, almost none of this went to plan ...

1961 – Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first human in space aboard Vostok 1. He spends 108 minutes in space and makes one orbit around the earth. May 5, 1961 – Project Mercury astronaut ...