On this date in 1975, a Soviet and an American shook hands. Even for the time period, this wouldn’t have been a big deal if it wasn’t for the fact that it happened approximately 220 kilometers (136 ...

(WHTM) On July 15, 1975, two rockets blasted off into space. The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 19 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery ...

Soviet-era cosmonaut Anatoly Filipchenko, who launched on two docking tests, first for a possible Russian moon landing and then the first joint flight with the United States, has died at the age of 94 ...

Former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford, who flew to the moon before leading the first international space mission carried out by the United States and Russia, has died at the age of 93. Stafford's ...

The documentary "Soyuz-Apollo. The Force of Gravity" is dedicated to the history of the legendary "handshake in space" – the docking in near-Earth orbit of the Soviet and American spacecraft Soyuz-19 ...

If you watched the original Star Trek series, you’d assume there was no way the Federation would ever work with the Klingons. But eventually the two became great allies despite their cultural ...

HOUSTON - While much of the U.S. marked the 50th anniversary of the NASA Apollo 11 Moon landing on July 20, a three-man crew blasted off aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...

GRAND PRIZE: New OMEGA Speedmaster chronograph gentlemen’s watch. Flight-qualified by NASA for all manned space missions, the Speedmaster was worn by the astronauts and cosmonauts during the ...

DAYTON, Tenn. — The long-heralded clash between science and religion over the origin of man was eliminated from the Scopes anti-evolution trial today when presiding Judge John T. Raulston upheld a ...

The passing of Tom Stafford leaves only seven surviving Apollo Moon voyagers. Nicknamed “Mumbles”, this Air Force three-star general dodged death on the launchpad, set records as one of the fastest ...

As Russia’s newest cosmonaut, Colonel Georgy Beregovoy, piloted his spacecraft through a series of seemingly routine maneuvers last week, nervous U.S. space officials began to relax. The flight of ...

In the aftermath of the Biden-Xi summit, we should consider a comparable moment 50 years ago during the height of superpower confrontation, when the issue of outer space cooperation was considered. We ...