When Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in his spacecraft, Vostok 1, he was one of the most famous people on earth. The lesser known stories of his demise and the brains behind the technical ...

During the Cold War with the former Soviet Union, it was an orbit of the Earth which the average Joe considered space. Soviet Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space by that standard ...

Gemini 4 was one of the highlights of the space conquest of the 1960s ... Ed White, floating alone in infinity, symbolizes the ultimate freedom: that of a man exploring a totally new territory. But ...

Dwight’s entry into the astronaut selection program was heralded in newspapers around the country, on the cover of Black ...

Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space) grew up in a small Russian village. Perhaps, however, the apparent nexus between Earth’s isolated locales and those final frontiers is derived from more ...

An ex-Armyman opened fire on a man in the Ashok Nagar area of Pune ... The Gaganyaan mission, set to be India's first manned space flight, is now scheduled for a 2026 launch.