The septuagenarian space port proves as reliable as ever, but geopolitics and funding mean that its future at the forefront ...

Though The Twilight Zone is considered a TV classic, it sometimes got tangled up in its own twists, resulting in some of the ...

The Spanish scientist has begun her relentless training to become an extraterrestrial being. EL PAÍS accompanies her for a ...

The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7" family of boosters. The launch took place on Christmas Day when an R-7 ...

A critical part of the training includes the use of microgravity simulators like parabolic flights and neutral buoyancy pools, and high-fidelity simulators that replicate conditions for practising ...

Rakesh Sharma’s journey inspires generations to reach for the stars while staying grounded in purpose and simplicity.

In 1982, his selection for the space mission took him to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training ... (HAL), he survived a near-fatal MIG-21 test flight incident with remarkable composure and resilience.

BUT 30 YEARS LATER, ALMOST TO THE DAY, I WAS SITTING ON YURI GAGARIN ... FOR CREW FLIGHT TEST. I WAS THEIR BACKUP. WE’VE TRAINED TOGETHER FOR FIVE YEARS. THEY’RE VETERAN SPACE EXPLORERS ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

The Newsmaker of the Year 2023 was presented to ISRO Chairman Dr S Somanath by the celebrated actor and director of the movie ...

On airspace modernisation, Ms Olney said: “When the proposed flight path systems are ... designed closer to the time that Yuri Gagarin went into space (1961) than today,” he said.

Photo: Getty Images. For decades, launching missions to space remained costly, difficult, risky and weighed down by governmental red tape. But that notion that any launch into orbit must follow a ...