Sergei Krikalev was forced to orbit the Earth for months in the Soviet Union's Mir space station as his bones and muscles ...

T he former Apollo 8 astronaut best known for taking the iconic "Earthrise" photo, who died last month while piloting a plane over the waters off Washington state, was doing a flyby near a friend ...

An astronaut who was abandoned in space for 311 days told of how the intense isolation took a terrible toll on him. Sergei Krikalev was dubbed 'the last Soviet' after spending an unintended 10 ...

Former US astronaut, Senator John Glenn has died in Ohio at 95. Glenn, who became one of the 20th century’s greatest heroes as the first American to orbit Earth and later as the world’s ...

A Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission died on Monday. Robert ‘Ed’ Smylie was born in ...