Voshkod 1 kicked off the second series of manned Soviet spaceflights, following the Vostok missions that had been the first to put humans in space. When the craft launched on Oct. 12, 1964, for its ...

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Japan’s national space agency – the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) – was established in 2003, but the history of Japan’s space programs dates all the way back to early developments in ...

A US House committee with oversight of NASA unanimously passed a “reauthorization” act for the space agency on Wednesday. The legislation must still be approved by the full House before being sent to ...

Over the first quarter of the 21st century, two major trends have transformed the global space industry. The first is the rapid rise of China’s space program, which only flew its first human to orbit ...

This marks the first medical evacuation in the International Space Station's history. The four-person crew landed safely Jan. 15 off the coast of California. NASA has not disclosed the identity of the ...

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of the cosmos. Experts have also revealed when the next-gen spacecraft is set ...

Mother Nature had her say and disrupted the 125th annual Mummers Parade in 2026. Officials say high winds blew around the bands' props on Thursday. The Philadelphia Mummers Parade said the String Band ...

Almost exactly 6 years after the Space Force was founded, a basic training class made history as the first to march in the traditional boot camp graduation ceremony wearing the service’s own, ...

Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, a 33-year-old aerospace engineer from Germany, just made history as the first wheelchair user to travel to space. Benthaus joined a roughly ten-minute commercial flight ...

WEST TEXAS — A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth ...