Space

Apollo 11 was the first mission to place a man on the moon; two in fact. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped of the ladder of the Lunar Module and onto the surface of the moon. He was followed by fellow astronaut Buzz...

Laika was the first living creature to orbit the Earth. A stray dog from the streets of Moscow, she made her historic flight on November 3, 1957 aboard Sputnik 2. Unfortunately she did not survive the mission. In 2008, a monument was erected to...

Yuri Gagarin was a??Soviet Air Forces??pilot and??cosmonaut??who became the first human to journey into??outer space. Aboard his space capsule Vostok 1, he achieved this Space Race milestone on April 12, 1961.????

Apollo 13 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970. It was supposed to be the third mission to land men on the moon. However, two days into the mission, an oxygen module in the command module failed, cancelling the moon landing...

It's considered the greatest bad movie of all time. Written and directed by the infamous Ed Wood in 1959, Plan 9 from Outer Space??focuses on an attempt by extraterrestrials to stop mankind from making a doomsday weapon capable of destroying the entire universe.

Is there space in your heart for a Valentine's Day sweetie?

Spacefarers from the U.S. were dubbed Astronauts. Those from the former Soviet Union (now Russia), became known as Cosmonauts. The root "naut" derives from "nautes", Greek for "sailor."??

Go to space in your ventilated Halloween mask and costume that was a staple for generations of trick-or-treaters.

With the heated Space Race cooling off in the mid-70s, a new era of cooperation between the US and the USSR was ushered in. This was first demonstrated with the Apollo-Soyuz mission of 1975 in which spacecraft from each nation linked up in Earth...

The Space Race was an unofficial competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, the goal of which was to establish dominance in outer space. It peaked in 1969 when the U.S. successfully placed to astronauts on the lunar surface. With the dissolution...