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 ...

On March 18, 1980, a Soviet rocket exploded on the launchpad and killed 48 people. The Vostok-2M rocket was about to launch a new spy satellite called Tselina-D. Military technicians were working ...

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 ...