Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-31 mission launches on April 14 with its first all-female crew. Katy Perry, Gayle King, Jeff ...

His account of Starliner’s thruster failures—and his desperate efforts to keep the vehicle flying on course—was riveting. In ...

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear.

May 3, 2003 – Expedition Six crew return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-1. Crew members Kenneth Bowersox and Don Pettit are the first American astronauts ever to land in a Soyuz spacecraft. July 29 ...

Sharman wore the garment for her 1991 mission to the Soviet/Russian space station Mir. The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft that returned U.K. astronaut Tim Peake from the International Space Station in ...

You may like Tom Hanks' 'The Moonwalkers' makes US premiere at Space Center Houston 'Earth to Space' art festival set to launch at Kennedy Center this week The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft that ...

Launched on March 27, 2015, via Soyuz TMA-16M, their “One-Year Mission” focused on human adaptation to space, conducting over 400 experiments on weightlessness, radiation, and isolation. Their ...

Advert One of the worst incidents to result in the loss of human life was the fate of the Soyuz 11 crew which headed in to space back in June 1971. Three Russian cosmonauts ventured in to space ...

In April 2008, she survived a rough landing aboard Soyuz TMA-11 when a failed module separation sent the capsule spinning off course, landing 470 km from its target. Whitson was also the first ...

Unlike Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft, which can bring astronauts back to Earth in just 3.5 hours, the SpaceX Dragon capsule takes approximately 17 hours to complete its return journey. This is due ...