Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez and Gayle King will ride on Blue Origin's first all-female spaceflight, marking the first such ...

The rocket looped around the Earth twice to build up enough speed then set off across space. And three days later two astronauts called Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the very first people ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...