Secrets of new space race from dark death speech to astronauts who can't walk
While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...
Cosmonaut's chilling last words in final transmission as he fell from space
Interestingly, US listening posts situated in Turkey caught Komarov's final and furious conversation with a high-ranking official of the Soviet Union, Alexei Kosygin, which was controversially ...
On This Day In 1965: Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov Became First Human To Walk In Space; Know The Tragedy He Encountered
Not many know that the first spacewalk by Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov could have ended in tragedy owing to ...
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Sense of Honor Transcends Western Tensions with Russia–Tending Graves and Welcoming Cosmonauts
Pictures from civilians have shown that even during the last 3 years of the war, British soldiers' graveyards have been ...
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Who else has been stuck in space? A short history of long spaceflights
Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent 14½ months aboard the Mir space station in the mid-1990s. He volunteered for it. As a ...
History Today: When Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history as the first person to walk in space. The spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. Also, on ...
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Soviets blast 2 men into space
MOSCOW -- A Soviet cosmonaut left his space ship for 20 minutes today while orbiting the earth. He turned a jubilant somersault before returning safely to the craft. The first space pedestrian and ...