On June 16, 1963, 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova ... locked in an intense space race at the height of the Cold War. Yuri Gagarin, who became the first human in space in 1961, put immense ...

61 years ago, humanity reached space for the second time with NASA 's Project Mercury. On the morning of May 5, 1961, naval aviator and test pilot Alan B. Shepard Jr. hopped onto the Freedom ...

President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 29 from Florida.

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April 28 marks the day Dennis Tito, a millionaire businessman from the US, became the world’s first space tourist in 2001. He self-funded his trip to space for $20 million aboard a Russian Soyuz ...

Amid Blue Origin's space flight mayhem, meet some of the most famous female astronauts who journeyed and contributed to space science.

The 40-year-old singer of such hits as I Kissed a Girl and Roar will head 100 kilometers (60 miles ... who flew solo to space two years after Yuri Gagarin became the first human to make it ...

Amid Blue Origin's space flight mayhem, meet some of the most famous female astronauts who journeyed and contributed to space science.