NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our ...

Russian Ambassador to Cambodia Anatoly Borovik emphasized that Russia, who had built the road to space for mankind, consistently supported broad international cooperation in the peaceful ...

The next step would be a manned mission around the moon. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled ...

thanks to the series of photographs showing astronaut Ed White floating alone in the vacuum of space, connected by a wire to the Gemini spacecraft. This image captures more than just a technical feat.

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...

Listen to China's Rocket Man on the BBC World Service Click ... but 15 years later he oversaw the launch of the first Chinese satellite into space. Over the decades, he trained a new generation ...

Raja Chari was among the new astronauts who received silver pins marking their graduation at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston ... NASA aims to put a man and a woman on the moon in 2024.