New photos released by NASA today are the sharpest ever taken of the Apollo landing sites on the moon, showing the parked lunar rover and the tracks it made. It even shows the research equipment and the footpaths of Apollo astronauts four decades on. Any doubters left? The images were...

With glorious Moon rockets turning into low Earth orbit space trucks turning into , what is there to say about the US manned space program other than , a photographic series by Sara Phillips, Neil Dacosta and Saskia Thomson. which alternate between terrible subtlety and shocking violence, they show how...

First, Iran elects a president whose sense of style begins and ends at Members Only jackets. Then, some operative tries to hire a to assassinate a Saudi Arabian ambassador in the United States. And now Iran's attempt to put a monkey in space failed. Iran had planned to launch a...

It took 14 years after the start of manned space exploration for an American and a Soviet spaceship to hook up, and this was the Soyuz rocket which delivered the Soviet half of the in 1974. Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov met astronauts Tom Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke...

The year 1918 doesn't seem all that far away, all things considered. And yet, futurists of the time thought some day we'd be traveling through space at the "terrific" speed of two miles a minute. That's 120 mph. To the moon in 83 days? Preposterous! That was the pronouncement of...

Russian blogger and photographer has taken urban exploring to its rather frightening apogee when she sneaked inside the factory, which makes liquid-propellant rocket engines near the Khimki Forest outside Moscow, and made her way to the top and the bottom of the abandoned-looking facility. It’s a fascinating and very Sixties...

As an attempt to bolster the pride of a nation still devastated from the Cola Wars, a pair of 17-year-old Canadian high school students decided to record their launch of a Lego minifig into space. As this video shows, they . All it took was a few months work and...

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Here's the situation: You wake up, dazed, and find yourself floating weightlessly in the cramped confines of a Soyuz orbital module, possibly the victim of a prank by wealthy, well-connected friends — or maybe some espionage plot. Maybe you owe money to some powerful Russians. Who knows — maybe you...

When Air Force pilot Joe Kittinger from 102,800 feet in August 1960, he set four aerospace records which stand to this day. Red Bull and a mad Austrian skydiver are about to break them. And Kittinger is on board. is the latest high-tech project financed by all those cans of...

Space junk is a serious if little-appreciated problem. Dead satellites, spent booster rockets, and other orbiting technical garbage place active satellites and manned craft in significant peril. In a culturally appropriate effort, the is launching the to tidy up low-earth orbit. CleanSpace One is a small (30cm x 10cm x...

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn orbited the Earth three times in his Friendship 7 spaceship to make the United States the second nation to send a man into orbit. This is the Universal Newsreel of his flight. In those days, NASA was playing catchup to the Soviet space program,...

Space training is not all about mad afternoons in aerotrims and learning how to operate a can of . On some days, it’s about taking off your spacesuit and kicking it in hammocks in a birch forest. Just ask Valery Kubasov (left) and Bertalan Farkas, training here for the 1980...

Today is , and yesterday was the birthday of . It's ok to admit you don't know who that is. Despite beating Sally K. Ride (and many men) into space by 20 years, Tereshkova and her comrade Svetlana Savitskaya are probably most notably remembered in a souvenir apron bearing Savitskaya's...

First, GM and NASA built the humanoid . Now, the two have teamed up again to create a Human Grasp Assist device. The K-Glove, a.k.a, Robo-Glove, a.k.a. a real-life Nintendo Power Glove, gives the user the power of robots. You could be like . In space! And not horrible! And...