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The Russian government has announced 700 pages of confidential documents about the life of Yuri Gagarin, the first person to fly into space, and his historic flight 50 y…
A series of technical problems occurred in the first flight that brought people into space and if today's safety standards were applied, it would certainly not be carrie…
The first astronaut to fly into space died when his plane dived to avoid a hot air balloon in 1968, documents recently declassified by the Russian government.
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) said on March 22 that its Soyuz spacecraft will leave its launch pad on June 5, six days later than expected, according to A…
The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) said on April 4 that it would postpone the launch of the Endeavor until the end of this month to avoid a collision with a Russ…
According to the deputy director of the Russian rocket manufacturing group Energia, the space pilot Pavlov Vinogradov, in the next decade, up to 10 years, people will fl…
The International Space Station (ISS) 's arm was suddenly broken while two American astronauts walked out of space yesterday, causing one to get stuck for nearly 20 minu…
Space shuttle Discovery successfully connected with the international space station on its last voyage before becoming a part of history.
In order to defeat the Soviet Union in the space race 50 years ago, the United States trained chimpanzees to become astronauts.
The world's two leading rocket companies want to make rockets capable of taking people into space without spacecraft.
According to Russian news agency Ria Novosti, on February 14, two members of the group volunteered to participate in the project
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on December 13 moved the Soyuz spacecraft into the launch pad, preparing for a flight into space, ...
This morning, December 16, from Baikonur Airport, Russia successfully launched the TMA-20 Combined Ship, bringing three astronauts to the International Space Station (IS…
The Russian control center lost contact with the ISS space station within the past few hours, but then resumed.
In 2010, many remarkable secrets about the universe were discovered as every black hole contained a universe, the end of time, found a new earth ... Here are 10 discover…