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

Only 12 people have ever walked on the moon ... the first nation to put a man — Yuri Gagarin — in space. Whoever got to the moon first would attain serious bragging rights.

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 ...

Named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, New Shepard is Blue Origin ... To date, the program has flown 52 people above the Kármán line. (This story has been updated ...