There’s a satisfying symmetry to the structure, but it leans toward the schematic. Dichotomies are set up and then cleanly ...

On May 31, 1990, the Soviet Union launched a new module to the Mir space station. The new component was named Kristall, and it was the third addition sent to Mir since the core module launched in ...

Space has an odour. Visitors to the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, US, can smell it by pressing a button to inhale ...

A Russian cargo ship docked to the International Space Station fired its thrusters Wednesday (April 30) to distance itself from passing piece of orbital space debris. International Space Station 1 ...

KOROLYOV, Russia (AP) — Russia s deteriorating Mir space station received what was probably its final visitor on Saturday: A cargo ship laden with fuel to propel the 15-year-old orbiting lab ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On June 23, 1949, the XS-1 space plane flew for the 117th time. The XS-1, later called the ...

Peggy Whitson couldn’t make it to her induction ceremony for the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame alongside fellow inductee Bernard Harris. She’s in quarantine to go to space for a fifth ...

That cooperation would then grow to the first U.S. astronaut living aboard the Russian space station Mir, a precursor to today's International Space Station, in the early months of 1995.

As Axiom-4 mission was successfully launched from the NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the family of Group Captain Subhanshu Shukla expressed immense pride on his achievement while wishing for ...