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 ...

Now more than 700 people have flown past the 50-mile-high mark that was considered the boundary of space when spaceflight first got started. At that time, the Soviet Union and the U.S. were the ...

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 ...

The Soviet Union put the first person into space, so President Kennedy of the United States of America set a challenge. We will go to the Moon! Not because it is easy but because it is hard.