Though he never set foot outside his Vostok 1 spacecraft as it made a complete orbit around Earth, Gagarin’s journey was a ...

Two Russian cosmonauts will exit the International Space Station on Thursday to conduct an hours-long spacewalk outside the outpost. Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, both cosmonauts with the Russian ...

Alexey Zubritsky (a TASS special reporter in space) pointed out that the ISS "is a bright example of how citizens of various countries can together create something truly important and useful for the ...

While the commercial Polaris Dawn crew geared up for the first non-government spacewalk, a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off on a more traditional spaceflight Wednesday, launching to ...

Two Russian cosmonauts will venture out into the vacuum of space today, and you can watch it live. Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner of Russia's space agency Roscosmos will begin a spacewalk, or ...

Imagine being trapped in space and finding out that your country no longer exists. That is what happened to Sergei Krikalev, the last Soviet cosmonaut of the USSR. On December 26, 1991, his nation ...

Jonny Kim, a former Navy SEAL, Harvard Medical School graduate and now a NASA astronaut, blasted off with two cosmonaut crewmates aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket early Tuesday, chased down the ...

Alexander Gorbunov and his launch partner, NASA astronaut Nick Hague, will arrive at Cape Canaveral launch facility in Florida to spend the next two weeks in routine preflight quarantine WASHINGTON, ...

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky completed a 6 hour and 54 minute spacewalk outside the International ...