Passengers on a luxury cruise have been stranded in Belfast as their ship underwent urgent and unexpected repairs. With the Villa Vie Odyssey docked in Northern Ireland, the cruisegoers have had ...

Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man in space on 12 April 1961. Major Gagarin orbited the Earth for 108 minutes, travelling at more than 17,000 miles per hour ...

President Joe Biden has managed this national divide by marking both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in separate ...

But it looked like the USSR might beat us there. On Oct. 4, 1957, Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite ...

The mother­ship will bear the spaceship upward for ... (That number, the running total since Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth in 1961, stands at 700, including the 37 who have flown on Virgin Galactic.) ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...

Interestingly, all of the planets and moons in this system are named after astronauts with Gagarin (Yuri Gagarin), Jemison (Mae Jemison), Olivas (John Daniel Olivas), and Chawla (Kalpana Chawla).

In 1959, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first person ... in equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated. All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation or port ...

Vladimir Lyakhov in Colombo this week. Epic journey: Yuri Gagarin, first man in space Then another figure, 333 – the total number of days he spent in space. Lyakhov even has a joke about it – which ...

All plinth and no body: Belgrade's tribute to Yuri Gagarin has not been well received A tribute to the first man in space recently unveiled in the Serbian capital Belgrade has caused dismay ...

Cruise lines are building bigger ships with more amenities to attract travelers. Not all cruise lines are increasing the size of their ships, with many opting to keep ships at 3,000 passengers or ...