On Sept. 29, 1977, the Salyut 6 space station launched into orbit. This was the eighth space station the Soviet Union ...
The Union State is a special institution for us, and Belarus is our partner, Head of the Russian State Corporation Roscosmos ...
in 1957 - and then Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space in 1961. But after the 1991 ...
Spending 178 days in space is a long time, and enough to make anybody start thinking deeply about life and the way they live.
Yevgeny Khrunov, born September 10, 1933, was selected as one of the first Soviet cosmonauts in February 1960. He participated in the Soyuz 4/Soyuz 5 mission in January 1969, which involved the first ...
Russia will soon have a rival to Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink, as it tries to shift away from outdated ...
SCOTTISH writer Gregory Burke has been reminiscing about the play that launched his career. It has been nearly 25 years since Gagarin Way was performed on the stage at the Traverse Theatre in ...
For one elderly woman in Japan, the answer was to transfer 1 million yen ($6,772) to her online suitor. The 80-year-old ...
Hadfield's 'Kaz' Zemeckis returns for this third entry in the bestselling author's 'The Apollo Murders' series ...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured great shots of the total lunar eclipse over the weekend.
Gagarin's success made him an international hero and a symbol of the Soviet Union's achievements in space exploration.
On Sept. 27, 1996, the Taliban, the extremist Islamic movement in Afghanistan, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, the capital, and executed former President Najibullah ...