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

Polyakov's interest in space medicine began in 1964, after Soviet physician Boris Yegorov became the first doctor to travel to space aboard Voskhod 1. Polyakov ... remained in orbit to study ...

Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...

An exhibition showcasing one of the UK’s largest private collections of space artefacts will open at Thinktank, Birmingham ...

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Four space explorers will launch with SpaceX next week on a polar orbital mission that could unlock a new area in space for ...

A privately funded crew will launch on a SpaceX rocket next week on a mission to orbit Earth's poles - something that has ...

These Phase 1 satellites, as OroraTech has designated them, will orbit at a steep 97-degree inclination, at an altitude of 340 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth, and are the humble beginning in a ...

But in general, the idea is to provide an unpressurized module in which one or more satellites can be pre-positioned in orbit. Such a module would isolate the satellites from the space environment ...

The mission saw W-1 in orbit for eight months before delivering to Earth crystals of an antiviral drug that were grown in orbit.