Endeavor soared around the planet on its way to the shuttle program's penultimate mission to the Russian Mir Space Station.

If Putin were to come to terms with Ukraine, ending his war of conquest, Trump could offer Russia a role in the Artemis ...

As Russian rocket development has stagnated ... Russia was able to maintain cosmonauts in space after the Mir space station ended its operational life. Russia might have offered to participate ...

Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...

when space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir. During this historic STS-71 mission, Atlantis delivered two cosmonauts to Mir for an extended stay and retrieved NASA ...

The Soviet Union’s launch in 1986 of Mir, the first modular low-Earth-orbit space station, transformed that mind-set. Suddenly astronauts not only flew to space but also had to live in space for ...

Jerry Linenger, who retired in 1998, battled an almost fatal fire onboard the Russian space station, Mir, back in 1997. Although Linenger managed to control the blaze, there was a terrifying moment in ...

A fire in the aft section of SpaceX's Starship trigged the apparent explosion that destroyed the spacecraft, the company says.