The world's first private spacewalk has been completed. On September 12, 2024 at 7:58 am EDT, two of the four-person crew of ...
In 1967, the CIA's A-12 "Oxcart" spy plane, a predecessor to the SR-71 Blackbird, flew high-risk reconnaissance missions over ...
It will be the first-ever spacewalk on a private mission. But does the US bear no responsibility for SpaceX’s ambitions?
In an infamous incident in 1960, pilot Gary Powers, while taking secret photos at more than 70,000 feet above the former Soviet ... suit that pilots wear when they ascend to the edge of space.
Considered one of the riskiest parts of spaceflight, spacewalks have been the sole realm of professional astronauts since the ...
This story happened on September 3, 1951, in Astrakhan Region. At the Kapustin Yar test site, scientists were preparing for an experimental launch of dogs into the upper atmosphere - already the ...
Mir was the Soviet Union’s most successful space station attempt. Skylab was supposed to reenter entirely over the Indian Ocean, but scattered debris across Australia as well. The United States ...
Firearms experts pointed out some of the features in the grainy photo, suggesting that the rifle is actually a Soviet cousin of the AK, the SKS. It was designed in the 1940s by another famous ...
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday morning, sending four people, including a billionaire, into orbit, with the aim of testing new space suits manufactured by ...
Lehigh Valley billionaire CEO Jared Isaacman on Tuesday morning rocketed back into orbit, aiming to perform the first private ...
Considered one of the riskiest parts of spaceflight, spacewalks have been the sole realm of professional astronauts since the ...
when pioneers like Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union and John Glenn of NASA pushed the boundaries of what had been accomplished in space, learning how to survive and operate in an airless and ...