Dear reader, in the mid-20th century, the world witnessed the first great space race between the United States and the Soviet ...

On November 3, 1957, Laika, a stray dog from Moscow, became the first living creature to orbit Earth, but at a terrible cost.

Today in the history of astronomy, President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act.

On July 29, 1982, the Salyut 6 space station fell out of space and safely burned up in Earth's atmosphere along the way.

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...

Since its formation in 1958, the US space agency NASA has played a pivotal role in advancing outer space exploration. Its ...

The American half of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was commanded by Thomas P. Stafford of Weatherford, Oklahoma.

Discover the legislative history of NASA and the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, which led to the historic moon ...

WEATHERFORD, Okla. (KFOR) – When astronaut Tom Stafford and cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov opened a hatch connecting their two ...

Yuri Gagarin became a global hero in 1961 when he became the first human to travel into space. But just seven years later, he ...

There have been many artists too spicy for primetime but the Soviet Union knew that some musicians could have been too erotic ...