But the first woman in space was actually a Soviet cosmonaut who beat out 400 applicants to pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft in ...

A Russian cosmonaut who holds the world record for the longest time spent in space for one trip revealed why he refused help ...

Not many know that the first spacewalk by Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov could have ended in tragedy owing to ...

Interestingly, US listening posts situated in Turkey caught Komarov's final and furious conversation with a high-ranking ...

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history as the first person to walk in space. The spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. Also, on ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

America and the Soviet Union were competing in the Space Race, trying to be the first country in the world to send a man to the moon and have the best space technology. In 1959, Russian cosmonaut ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

Built by the Soviet Military in the 1950s, the Sonderwaffenlager Neuthymen was one of the first military bases outside of the Soviet Union to store nuclear warheads.

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 ...