On 18 March 1965, the Soviet Union sent Alexei Leonov outside Voskhod 2 for the first spacewalk in history. The mission ...

In 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in space, but what Soviet state television never showed was a man ...

America 250: The Space Race | From Cold War rivalry to lunar ambitions ...

The Olympic torch took its very first spacewalk on Saturday when two Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy, took t ...

Good morning – and also, a quick goodbye. After more than two years and 300 newsletters, this is my final Morning Update. I’m ...

Aaron is an aviation enthusiast and world traveler with a deep interest in aerospace history and technology. He has traveled around the world numerous times, often incorporating visits to aviation ...

In the fall of 1988, a U.S. spy plane recorded a strange light phenomenon—known as the “Dome of Light”—following the launch ...

It was on January 24 1975, following the departure of the crew onboard Salyut 3, that the Soviets fired the cannon as a test.

What was once the most important potato field in the world belonged to the Nurskanova family in the town of Engels, in the ...

Cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghanistan ’s first citizen in space, has died at age 67, his family and friends said. A national hero, Momand died from cancer on June 21 in a hospital in Stuttgart, ...

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams during a March 2026 spacewalk outside the ISS. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA astronauts on the International Space Station are preparing for a ...