went on to live a long life, dying on January 19, 1983, at the age of 26. France’s first astro-critter came late to the space game. Her name was Felicette and she was launched on a 15-minute ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...

Now more than 700 people have ... launched the first woman into space, but in subsequent years only five more female cosmonauts flew in total, whereas dozens of male cosmonauts went up each ...

Today marks 39th anniversary of Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, which took lives of seven crew members, including Ronald ...

The X-15 is the only conventional aircraft that has ever been flown above the “Karman Line” separating the Earth’s atmosphere from space.

SpaceX has made history by launching the first all-private crew of astronauts to the International Space Station Friday, on behalf of commercial aerospace firm Axiom Space. The Axiom-1 mission's ...