India, Poland and Hungary launched their first astronauts in more than 40 years Wednesday, sending them on a private flight ...

India, Poland and Hungary launched their first astronauts in more than 40 years Wednesday, sending them on a private flight to the International Space Station. The three countries shared the tab for ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Russian spacewalker had to rush back inside the International Space Station on Wednesday when the battery voltage in his spacesuit suddenly dropped. Russian Mission ...

On every subsequent launch from this launch pad at the BaikonurCosmodrome, all cosmonauts are believed to have followed suit,except for the handful of female cosmonauts — and Thagard on March14 ...

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin wore a SK-1 pressure suit on April 12, 1961, when he became the first human to journey into space. Notable features include a visored helmet that is not detachable ...

Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov wearing the Orlan suit outside the space station in 2014 There are two suits used for spacewalking at the ISS. One is the Russian Orlan type, which was first used in ...

Space Station Cosmonaut Dons Alien Mask When Spacecraft Arrives, ... The first suit exploded after the SpaceX mission to deliver it to the station blew up in June 2015.

For Ovchinin, who will wear a spacesuit with red stripes, this will mark his second spacewalk, while it will be the first for Vagner, wearing a suit with blue stripes. Both cosmonauts are members ...

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ushered in the era of manned spaceflight aboard Vostok 1. During the flight, Gagarin wore an SK-1 pressure suit seen here as he boards his ...

The Axiom Space Ax-4 mission led by record-setting Peggy Whitson making her fifth trip to space is set to launch with three men from countries that have not sent a person to space in more than ...

Today spacewalks are an almost routine part of space exploration but the very first spacewalk by Alexei Leonov, who died last week at 85, was anything but straightforward.