The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever ... The US managed to shoot a human – Alan Shepard, who later went on to walk on the moon – into space weeks later ...

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first great ape to travel to ... Before launching humans into space, NASA needed to ensure that the human body could endure space travel and that ...

Animals were every bit as heroic as the first human astronauts By Jeffrey Kluger ... a squirrel monkey, and her space travel companion, Able, a rhesus monkey, in the run-up to their 16-minute ...

The first thing humans sent into space was this - a satellite ... They learn about the first people to travel into space, what they learnt and space expert Dr Becky Smethurst explains how we ...

As the final days tick down for the UAE’s first human ... space during two tours of duty aboard the International Space Station (ISS), and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, who is taking her first ...

NASA aims to travel to the moon again—and beyond. Here’s a look at the 21st-century race to send humans into space. Private spaceflight is not a new concept. In the United States, commercial ...