Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first person in history to spacewalk ... At a time when the US and the USSR were jostling for space supremacy, Leonov's mission was lauded ...

NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our ...

The Soviet Union put the first person into space, so President Kennedy of the United States of America set a challenge. We will go to the Moon! Not because it is easy but because it is hard.

TASS/. A bust statue of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to journey into outer space, will be unveiled in the Norwegian city of Bergen, the chairperson of the North Europe and Baltic ...

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 ...

The next step would be a manned mission around the moon. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled ...

It blasted off on April 12, 1981, exactly two decades after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. The Enterprise never traveled among the stars. But it paved the way for future space ...

Photos taken by the India Space Research Organization moon orbiter Chandrayaan 2 recently show aerial images of Apollo 11 and ...

A senior Nasa engineer has said the first person to set foot on Mars should be a woman. Allison McIntyre, who puts prospective space travellers through their paces at Johnson Space Center in ...