Indian Air Force (IAF) group captain Shubhanshu Shukla has been selected as the pilot for Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), NASA ...

The launch of Skylab came two years after the Soviet Union had deployed the world’s first space station, Salyut 1. This station only hosted a single crew, which arrived aboard the ill-fated ...

On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship on a mission to delivery supplies ...

The year is 1985. The unmanned Soviet space station Salyut 7, which is in low Earth orbit, suddenly stops responding to commands from the Control Center. If the space station - the pride of Soviet ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is set to travel to the International Space Station in a few months, said he will also be carrying items representing different regions of India.

MOSCOW, October 4. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the creators of the Salyut-7 movie and with astronauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh late Tuesday evening, who flew ...

These preliminary steps are much like Russia took with their Salyut space station program. Both Tiangong-1 and 2 are first generation space stations in that they are single pieces with only one ...

Their initial offering is known as Haven. Haven is somewhat reminiscent of early Russian Salyut space stations in that the entire station is placed into low-Earth orbit by a single rocket ...

In 1973, the mummichog became the first fish to orbit Earth aboard the American Skylab station. Three years later, zebrafish followed, sent to space aboard the Soviet Salyut 5. Cosmonauts observed ...