Canine cosmonaut Laika rests comfortably inside the Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 before being blasted into orbit in 1957.Credit ...
During what would become the most dramatic month in space history, an apocalyptic explosion of near-nuclear magnitude took ...
On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth. Laika was a 3-year-old stray ...
At the beginning of November 2000, an ambitious project of East-West understanding began: the first crew moved into the ...
In 1990, an Israeli-Jewish restaurant named “Shalom” opened inside the Ministry of Communications of Kazakhstan. It was the twilight of the Soviet Union — before the renewal of diplomatic relations ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Nov. 6, 1572, the German astronomer Wolfgang Schulër observed a supernova with his bare eyes.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It’s an unprecedented space streak: 25 years of people living off-planet without even a moment’s pause.