Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...

For many years NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, were the only spacefaring entities in the world. The Chinese ...

Eisenhower signed into law shortly after the start of the space race against the Soviet Union. If you're not convinced, you ...

The An-225 was just the beginning. The engineers had big plans for the aircraft, and by big, we mean huge. Meet the An-325 ...

India made significant strides in the field of science and technology with its SpaDex mission. This mission, executed by the ...

The Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:09 local time (06:09 GMT ... a feat only previously accomplished by the US, the Soviet Union, China, India and Japan. Separately, ...

The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre, the latest in a stream of private spacecraft aiming ... Only five countries have successfully placed ...

The Blue Origin rocket was delayed to no earlier than 1 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 12, due to unfavorable conditions offshore. The ...

The mission, the culmination of a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar development journey, will include an attempt to land New ...

pioneered a voyage into space ... [+] that was both groundbreaking and heartbreaking. On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s ...

In his State of the Union message to the Congress on this date ... we have undertaken in the past year a great new effort in outer space,” Kennedy said. “Our aim is not simply to be first ...

R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA These are the voyages of the space ...