Launching humans into space is an inherently risky practice. To prepare astronauts for the microgravity environment of space, ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...

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

The custom of flying zero-g indicators began in the former Soviet Union with the launch of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, in 1961. The tradition migrated to the United States ...

Back in 1967 Soviet Union, the original plan involved launching two spacecraft, Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 2, into orbit ... flight On the day of the launch, Yuri Gagarin, who was the backup pilot for ...

were trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, the same centre where Rakesh Sharma underwent training. Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to go into space in 1984.These ...

the country’s first manned space mission, adding that the Indian astronauts chosen for the task have been trained at Russia’s Yuri Gagarin Training Center, the same space institute where the ...

Additionally, eight scientific advancements make it into the top 10 respondents ... it served as revenge against Yuri Gagarin’s Soviet achievement of spending 108 minutes orbiting the Earth ...

Leonov was part of the first group of Soviet cosmonauts, selected in 1960 alongside Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space. Born on 30 May 1934 in the Siberian town of Listvyanka, he was ...

were trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, the same centre where Rakesh Sharma underwent training. Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to go into space in 1984. These ...