From the lunar landing to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here are some bold space missions in history.

Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...

Twenty years to the day since Yuri Gagarin flew in Vostok 1, the world’s first reusable spacecraft – and the most complex spacecraft ever built – was launched into orbit by the US.

Gagarin was the first man in the world to perform a space flight aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961 MOSCOW, February 19. /TASS/. Future space tourists will be able to follow the ...

But the first woman in space was actually a Soviet cosmonaut who beat out 400 applicants to pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft in ...