The spacecraft, stuck in orbit since 1972 after an unsuccessful mission to Venus, plunged into the Indian Ocean.

Suddenly man’s centuries-old dream of space travel had been transformed into reality. Vostok was not an unmanned satellite-impersonal, cold, emotionally empty. It had carried an ordinary man ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

He would become a star after the launch of the Vostok space capsule on April 12, 1961. Gagarin’s physique was perfect for the risky mission – the cosmonaut flying the Vostok could not weight ...

This was the Soviet Union's next big move in the "space race" after it launched the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. His mission was called Vostok 1, and it involved both a Vostok rocket and ...

"He [Bowie] had always fantasized about flying in space ... for him it was just like a gift," said Hadfield of his "Space Oddity" video.

President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first ...

The developer of Road to Vostok, an upcoming brutal survival FPS, has revealed some major improvements, including a new ...