If there’s ever a clearer illustration of the critics against Theodore Roosevelt’s “man in the arena,” it’s Soviet space pioneer Yuri Gagarin and the naysayers who believe he wasn’t ...

Space provides freedom to stretch, to act, to create opportunities, whether we are talking sport, space exploration or life.

But Yuri’s death is still felt keenly ... Gagarin was the first to orbit Earth; Leonov, the first to walk in space. Gagarin’s life wasn’t exactly a “little Ivan becomes Czar” story ...

A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos ...

A little over 240 years ago, birds were the only things that could fly above the ground untethered without eventually falling ...

The spacecraft, stuck in orbit since 1972 after an unsuccessful mission to Venus, plunged into the Indian Ocean.

"He [Bowie] had always fantasized about flying in space ... for him it was just like a gift," said Hadfield of his "Space ...

The Baikonur Cosmodrome, a bastion of Soviet space exploration and the historic site where Yuri Gagarin, the first man in ...

One month earlier on April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space when he orbited Earth at an altitude of 187 miles aboard Vostok 1. "Sixty-four years ...