Space has an odour. Visitors to the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, US, can smell it by pressing a button to inhale ...

American astronaut Norman Thagard broke NASA's space endurance record at the time of 84 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes while aboard the Russian space station Mir. Thagard, a veteran of four shuttle ...

He self-funded a trip aboard the Russian Soyuz TM-34 mission to the International Space Station. The journey cost Shutteworth around $20 million and required nearly a year of rigorous training.

He paid a reported $20 million for the trip aboard the Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft and spent seven days in orbit, making history as the world’s first space tourist.

In July of that year, Krikalev was asked - and agreed - to stay on the space station as a flight engineer for the next crew who were due to arrive in October abroad the Soyuz TM-13.

In July of that year, Krikalev was asked - and agreed - to stay on the space station as a flight engineer for the next crew who were due to arrive in October abroad the Soyuz TM-13.

At the age of 46, he launched to the Mir space station aboard Soyuz TM-6 on Aug. 29, 1988—16 years after becoming a Soviet cosmonaut in 1972.

Dr Sharman, who was 27 when she made history on May 18th, 1991 as the first British astronaut to go into space, as part of the Soyuz TM-12 mission, says her own short eight-day mission completely ...