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Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, and a rookie, Bob Crippen.
Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's historic spaceflight in 1961 began the journey of human exploration of the universe, a NASA spokesperson told Sputnik on Friday in commemoration of Cosmonautics Day.
“The stars don’t look bigger, but they do look brighter.” – Dr Sally Ride, first American woman to go to space On 12...
If you like to sled, you have to like to drag the sled
In 2011, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) declared April 12 as the International Day of Human Space Flight, commemorating the beginning of the space era dating back to 1961, when the USSR's Yuri Gagarin carried out the very first human trip into the beyond.