John McFall, a former Paralympian for Great Britain, has just become the first astronaut with a disability to receive medical ...
China has forged nearly two-dozen pacts with African nations in its bid to surpass the U.S. in space. Investments in ...
the world's first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later ...
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 ...