As we celebrate the successful flight of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station and back, I ...

However, its conceptual innovations, engineering challenges, and historical context offer a fascinating glimpse into the ...

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

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

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

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

Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...

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

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science ...

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