NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history as the first person to walk in space. The spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. Also, on ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams return to Earth this week after being stranded at the ISS for 9 months, ...

From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a ...

Up next is another brief intermission from the customary woe of the lonely man in space, courtesy of the legendary Bong ...

The European Space Agency has cleared a former Paralympian to train for a stint on the International Space Station. That’s a ...

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 ...

Soviet cosmonaut Ghermon Titov holds the record for the youngest to fly in space. He was 25 when he blasted into orbit four months after Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space. John Glenn was 77 ...

The next step would be a manned mission around the moon. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled ...