A Russian cosmonaut who holds the world record for the longest time spent in space for one trip revealed why he refused help ...

But the first woman in space was actually a Soviet cosmonaut who beat out 400 applicants to pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft in ...

The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United ... land at runways around the world has been a part of the American space program since the very beginning. In 1957, the US Air Force started the ...

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were ...

Roughly, he spent a total of 14 months and 17 days in space uninterrupted; a record to this day. It had meant to be 16 months ...

The second chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos ... at regulators from within the White House — putting the US space program on a very different trajectory.

The closed-cycle rocket engine design. Image via Wikipedia The Russian space program was largely controlled by one man, Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov. It was his design workflow that made the Russians ...

Buran was designed to perform up to 100 flights and take a crew of up to 10 people into space. The Buran project involved 1,206 enterprises from all across the Soviet Union. The program was closed ...

Blue Origin's next spaceflight is set to make history and will include celebrities such as Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez and Gayle King.

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were ...