Yuri Gagarin is celebrated as the first human in space, but some believe he wasn’t the first — just the first to survive.

The first-ever meal eaten in space comprised beef and liver paste squeezed through a tube. Next year, ISS astronauts will be ...

It might be another conspiracy theory, but the saga of the lost Soviet cosmonauts has persisted for many years, largely ...

The world knows Yuri Gagarin as the first man in space—but few know about the dangerous spin that threatened his life on reentry. This video unveils the classified Soviet cover-up and the heroic calm ...

This tradition, started by Yuri Gagarin, involves toys demonstrating microgravity and acting as emotional anchors. A soft white swan named Joy is all set to join the upcoming Axiom-4 mission, floating ...

During the Axiom-4 mission, a toy swan named Joy served as the zero-gravity indicator, selected due to astronaut Shubhanshu ...

The swan’s presence held cultural and spiritual resonance, particularly for India. While the selection was a joint decision by the four-member international crew, Joy’s significance for India runs ...

In both the Soviet Union and the United States, early space programs used animals as test pilots, with little regard for ...

Shukla joins the ranks of astronaut Rakesh Sharma, who is orbital astronaut number 138, and Kalpana Chawla, who is number 366 ...

Indian Air Force officer Shubhanshu Shukla is set to become the first Indian in 41 years to travel to space as the pilot of ...