In a desperate bid to stay ahead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union launched three men into orbit inside a capsule never designed to keep them safe. Voskhod 1 became a historic triumph built on ...

Oct. 4 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1876, the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now Texas A&M, opened. It was the first public higher education institution in Texas. In 1883, the ...

The Soviet/Russian space program achieved numerous "firsts" in human spaceflight, including the first human in space (Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1), the first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov, Voskhod 2), and the ...

On November 1, 1962, the Soviet Union launched the Mars 1 spacecraft on a mission to fly by the Red Planet. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com While it did end up flying by Mars, the ...

Ivan Evgrafovich Federov was born in Kharkov, Russia (today Kharkiv, Ukraine) on 23 February 1914 and raised in a working-class family. Getting his first taste of aviation via the Lugansk (now Luhansk ...

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