The spacecraft, stuck in orbit since 1972 after an unsuccessful mission to Venus, plunged into the Indian Ocean.

His mission was called Vostok 1, and it involved both a Vostok rocket and Vostok space capsule. He lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and reached an altitude of about 200 miles.

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President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first ...

The launch itself was at a knife’s edge when the first test flight of Vostok-K rocket failed. Yuri Gagarin during last minute checks of Vostok’s control systems before launch (Picture ...

At its heart is the spaceport, and central to the spaceport’s modest visitors area is a small museum where the world’s first astronaut Yuri Gagarin lived ahead of his launch into orbit on a Vostok ...

Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sánchez led an all-female crew including pop singer Katy Perry and CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King ...

six women aboard Blue Origin Flight NS-31 made history as the first all-female crew to fly to the edge of space since Valentina Tereshkova's solo 1963 flight on Vostok 6. The rocket took off for ...

Pop star Katy Perry and five other women safely returned to Earth after reaching space aboard Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket ...

“A serial entrepreneur, motivational speaker and former NASA rocket scientist, Aisha has launched seven-figure companies, landed some of the most well-known names in tech as clients and is set ...

Amid Blue Origin's space flight mayhem, meet some of the most famous female astronauts who journeyed and contributed to space science.