During a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev jettisoned a 5-kilogram bundle ...

On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...

The short answer to the question is no: NASA does not issue suicide capsules. However, the first cosmonaut to conduct a ...

Graphic combat footage has been a major part of the propaganda war between Ukraine and Russia in their ongoing conflict.

Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...

On 24 April 1967, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first man to die in space. The Soviet Union mourned the loss of a hero when it heard the Soyuz 1 mission was a failure. Some say Komarov ...

Pioneering cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov died on Friday in Moscow aged 85. With his passing, the world has lost another direct connection to the Cold War space race of the 1960s and 70s.

STAR CITY /Moscow Region/, December 24. /TASS/. Each of the six Belarusian female cosmonaut candidates who will be recognized as medically fit will go into space, President of Belarus Alexander ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...

Surrounding ‘spacey’ street names include Cosmos Street, Arkalyk Street (named after the Kazakh town that astronauts landed ...

French artists’ Victor Ash’s Astronaut Cosmonaut has achieved a cult mural status for Berlin. It is one of the most pictured murals in Berlin – a legend! Standing in Berlin-Kreuzberg near Kottbusser ...

The film is dedicated to the dramatic fate of cosmonaut Grigory Nelyubov. He was the second understudy of Yuri Gagarin, had a certificate of cosmonaut number 3. But he never flew into space.