During the Cold War with the former Soviet Union, it was an orbit of the Earth which the average Joe considered space. Soviet Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space by that standard ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...

Gemini 4 was one of the highlights of the space conquest of the 1960s ... Ed White, floating alone in infinity, symbolizes the ultimate freedom: that of a man exploring a totally new territory. But ...

The next step would be a manned mission around the moon. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled ...

It blasted off on April 12, 1981, exactly two decades after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. The Enterprise never traveled among the stars. But it paved the way for future space ...