Shubhanshu Shukla will become the first Indian to visit the ISS and only the second Indian in space, following Rakesh ...

New Delhi: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others were getting ready for their journey to the International Space Station on board SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket that is scheduled to blast off ...

Elon Musk is dialing back his threat to decommission a capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International ...

Soyuz is something of an alter ego to NASA's ... Becoming an astronaut during the space race at 31 years old was no easy feat — especially during the racially charged civil rights era.

North Korea apparently completed a successful test of its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile on October 31, lofting it nearly ... Russia launches Soyuz in service of Iran.

In November 2008, Pettit also flew to space on the shuttle mission STS-126 and was aboard Soyuz TMA-03M with space station Expeditions 30 and 31 from Dec. 21, 2011, to July 1 the next year.

Jähn joined three Soviet cosmonauts on the Soyuz 31 mission to the Salyut 6 space station, where he took photos of the Earth using a new multispectral camera. He also conducted experiments in ...

Hague and Ovchinin had a brief period of weightlessness when the capsule separated from the malfunctioning Soyuz rocket at an altitude of about 50km (31 miles), then endured gravitational forces ...

TASS/. Russia’s Soyuz 2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft blasted off from Pad 31 of the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan early on Friday, a TASS correspondent reported from ...

In 2018, the question of whether a hole had been intentionally drilled into the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 by a saboteur sparked an investigation led by the Russian space agency, Roscosmos.

The spacecraft was launched atop a Soyuz 2.1a booster rocket at 11:44 a.m. EDT from the Cosmodrome's Site 31/6 and docked at space station shortly before 3 p.m. The hatch opening occurred at 5:16 ...