The spacecraft, stuck in orbit since 1972 after an unsuccessful mission to Venus, plunged into the Indian Ocean.

Although we have been living in the space age for more than half a century, flights to Earth’s orbit are still rare. In the entire history of such flights, less than 600 people have visited space. Of ...

Amid Blue Origin's space flight mayhem, meet some of the most famous female astronauts who journeyed and contributed to space science.

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

Amid Blue Origin's space flight mayhem, meet some of the most famous female astronauts who journeyed and contributed to space science.

One month earlier on April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space when he orbited Earth at an altitude of 187 miles aboard Vostok 1. "Sixty-four years ...

He would become a star after the launch of the Vostok space capsule on April 12, 1961. Gagarin’s physique was perfect for the risky mission – the cosmonaut flying the Vostok could not weight ...

A little over 240 years ago, birds were the only things that could fly above the ground untethered without eventually falling ...

This skeletal Earth was ringed by the tracks commemorating Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok spacecraft, John Glenn’s Friendship 7 and the Telstar satellite: the three human-made things that had gone into ...

A little over 240 years ago, birds were the only things that could fly above the ground untethered without eventually falling ...