In an unpredictable era that has seen the Cold War rekindled, it's worth remembering a remarkable event that took place 50 years ago when the first crewed international space mission, carried out ...

I was 20 years old and a member of the 7th Cavalry near the DMZ in South Korea when the first Space Shuttle was launched in 1981. The launch took place, not intentionally, on the 20th anniversary ...

In April, North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon, ending the Vietnam War. Five astronauts and cosmonauts participated in the July 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first international joint human ...

Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions were trained at the planetarium. The first astronaut to train at Morehead Planetarium was Neil Armstrong himself.

There are no two ways about it—space will kill you if you give it half a chance. More than land, sea, or air, the space ...

The Znamya project had the potential to change the world. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that was ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

The year 2025 puts us one quarter of the way through the 21st century. We'll spend the year looking back at some of the amazing advances we've experienced. In this episode: privatized space travel.

You have just a few weeks left to visit the Science Museum's space gallery before it closes for refurbishment until later ...

Liftoff on Apollo 11. INSKEEP: A perceptive observer ... of crews and supplies created work for spacecraft - Russia's Soyuz capsules and American space shuttles. BYRNE: The U.S. government ...