A crew of four international spacefarers on a private mission will soon seek to become the first humans to travel over ...

SpaceX is gearing up to launch Fram2, the first crewed mission to orbit Earth's poles, on Monday night from the Kennedy Space ...

Live updates from Monday afternoon's SpaceX NROL-69 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Vostok 1. Officially, he came back to Earth in his capsule. Though it subsequently emerged that he actually parachuted to safety when it was still 7 kilometres from the ground. Despite that glitch ...

The rocket also served as a basis for the three-stage Vostok Rocket that inaugurated the era of manned flights on April 12, 1961, when Yuri Gagarin started off into orbit on the Vostok 1 spacecraft.

April 12 is celebrated as Cosmonautics Day throughout the world. This year will mark the 60th anniversary since a Vostok rocket orbited a Vostok-1 spacecraft with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on ...