The mission carried four passengers in a unique orbit around Earth that allowed humans to pass directly over the North and ...
No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...
The latest private space mission has launched four astronauts into a sideways orbit that has never been attempted before with ...
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...
To reach polar orbit from Florida—a trajectory SpaceX reopened in 2020 after a 50-year hiatus—the Falcon 9 rocket carrying ...
A crew of four civilian astronauts led by billionaire Chun Wang is set to launch on a SpaceX capsule that will fly them over ...
SpaceX is scheduled to launch a first-of-its-kind mission that will carry four private astronauts to fly above the Earth's ...
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter space more than 62 years ago. It was a massive propeller for technology we depend on today. The race into spa ce was intense between the US and ...
From the lunar landing to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here are some bold space missions in history.
The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings ... orbiting the globe once in his craft, Vostok 1. Officially, he came back to ...