The probe then retracts to pull the two spacecraft together. The shuttle’s system, though, derives from Apollo-Soyuz, designed to prevent either country’s craft from appearing dominant.

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...

An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

Space is one of the final areas of US-Russia cooperation Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. AFP Moscow: A Soyuz spacecraft ...

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians docked at the International Space Station Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said on Tuesday. The MS-27 craft, which was decorated ...

A Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut has returned to Earth as the International Space Station’s Expedition 72 crew end their seven-month research ...

The cavernous thermal-vacuum test facility is famous for testing the Apollo spacecraft that traveled to the moon in the 1960s and '70s. The instrument enclosure is designed to protect the ...