On Oct. 6, 1992, the United States and Russia signed an agreement to share astronauts and cosmonauts. Known as the Agreement ...

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The Soyuz 11 mission tragically ended with the deaths of three cosmonauts due to a rapid depressurization during re-entry. A ...

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts successfully reached the International Space Station after blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on ...

The Star City Closed Administrative Territorial Unit is barely an hour's drive northeast of the Kremlin, but for decades the town never appeared on any maps. Only after the Soviet Union fell apart was ...

Two Russian cosmonauts will take a 7-hour spacewalk on Thursday to install scientific equipment and a camera onto the outside of the International Space Station. Commander Commander Oleg Kotov and ...

CLAIM: Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who became the first person to go to space 61 years ago, has been stripped of his honors by the Space Foundation because he is Russian. THE FACTS: The Space ...