Two days after a rare last-second launch abort, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasted off Saturday on a flight to the International Space Station, carrying two short-duration crew members and a NASA ...

OSLO, September 14 /TASS/. A monument to Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who was the first man in space has been unveiled in the Norwegian city of Bergen, which Gagarin visited in March 1964.

Russia has unique competences in space exploration: the world’s first artificial satellite was launched by the Soviet Union and the world’s first man in outer space Yuri Gagarin was our ...

So far Russia was winning the Space Race ... many stages of the competition – first satellite, first animal, first man in space – by achieving the ultimate goal of planting a flag on the ...

Russia has prided itself as a leading power in space since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into space in 1961. But under Borisov's mandate, an uncrewed Luna-25 spacecraft ...