Salyut 1, the first space station in history, reached orbit unmanned atop a Proton rocket on April 19, 1971. The early first-generation stations were plagued by failures.

On Aug. 8, 1977, the Salyut 5 space station fell out of space and burned up in Earth's atmosphere. Salyut 5 was a Soviet space station and part of the highly-secretive Almaz military space station ...

NASA and Elon Musk's company on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, outlined the plan to burn the space station up on reentry and plunge what's left into the ocean, ideally at the beginning of 2031 when it ...

Shubhanshu Shukla becomes only the second Indian astronaut in history to venture into space, 41 years after Rakesh Sharma’s ...

The last time India, Poland or Hungary sent people to space, they were called cosmonauts, as they all flew on Soviet missions ...

A US commercial mission carrying astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary blasted off to the International Space Station on ...

It was 1986, and the Cold War was still as icy as ever. The Iron Curtain was drawn; the US was busy illegally selling arms to ...

Following the successful docking of the Axiom 4 Mission`s Dragon spacecraft on Thursday, Shubhanshu Shukla made history as ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla embarked on his space mission along with three others to the International Space Station ...

Shubhanshu Shukla becomes second Indian in space after Rakesh Sharma and first to reach the ISS, 40 years after Sharma's 1984 ...

IST on Wednesday, Shubhanshu Shukla and his three crewmates lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, onboard ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla joins Axiom Space's mission to ISS, marking a significant milestone for India in space ...