Egypt paid tribute to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into space, with a series of events in Cairo ...

NASA astronaut Johnny Kim arrived at the ISS alongside the 32-year-old and his fellow cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov on Tuesday (April 8), with the trio set to inhibit the satellite for the next eight ...

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut has docked with the ISS. Space is one of the few remaining areas of cooperation between Russia and the US after Moscow ...

NS-31, Blue Origin's upcoming mission, will send an all-female crew to space. Since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became history aboard Vostok 6 in 1963, this will be the first launch of ...

Chasing the USSR in the space race, the Americans had some catching up to do. But catch up they did. Twenty-three days after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin traveled into space, Shepard made a 15-minute ...

Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.

I disappeared for three weeks to visit Soviet Jewish refuseniks during Passover. Forty years later, the lessons I learned about the human capacity for cruelty and bovine thoughtlessness – and ...

Originally developed by the Soviet Union and now operated by Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, Soyuz is designed to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to and from low Earth orbit, including missions ...

Kim, who was joined by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, waited for about another hour and a half in order for the equalization of pressure in the vestibule – the small ...

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