After a 41-year gap, India celebrates Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla as its second astronaut, following Rakesh Sharma's 1984 ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

On July 3, 1969, an unthinkable event unfolded at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, as the Soviet N1 rocket, a colossal ...

SpaceX launched new Dragon spacecraft as part of Ax-4 mission, marking the first time in 41 years where an Indian astronaut ...

Different computer models were used to predict the reentry of the 1970s-era Soviet Venus craft Kosmos-482. Why were they divergent, and how can we improve our debris-fall forecasts?

Shukla’s spaceflight comes years after the journey of Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, India’s first astronaut, who flew into ...

Shubhanshu Shukla, part of India's Gaganyaan programme, will becomes the first Indian to reach the ISS, 41 years after Rakesh ...

The pioneering leap came in 1984, when Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to fly to space aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-11.

Shukla is joined by veteran NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, ESA astronaut Sławosz Uznanski-Wisniewski from Poland, and Tibor ...