The idea for the station was presented by the Russian general designer for manned space systems and complexes and Academician Vladimir Solovyov ...

By 2030, we will face an unprecedented situation: the first major space station in history will cease to exist. But what ...

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 ...

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

The ISS's orbit is slowly decaying. While it might seem a permanent fixture in the sky, the orbiting space laboratory is only ...

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

The first art created in space was probably a sketch of the sunrise by Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in 1965 ... was brought up and released on the Mir space station where it was allowed to bounce ...

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 ...

If Putin were to come to terms with Ukraine, ending his war of conquest, Trump could offer Russia a role in the Artemis program in exchange. The incoming U.S. president could point out that Russia has ...

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 ...

Endeavour also reached the Mir space station once and the International ... In December 1998, STS-88 rocketed to orbit in search of the Russian Zarya control module. On Dec. 6, just two days ...