MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday, a little more than three hours after its launch. The capsule atop a ...

An Iranian communications satellite was sent into orbit aboard a Russian rocket on Friday, a launch that highlighted strong ties between the two countries. The Soyuz rocket lifted off as scheduled ...

Russia launched the first in a new series of weather satellites to aid forecasting over its high-latitude regions. The Arktika-M No.1 satellite, aboard a Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket, lifted off from the ...

The findings of the technical commission established to analyze the causes of the Soyuz TMA-1 descent vehicle returning to Earth in ballistic mode were presented at a press conference held at ...

SOYUZ SCHEDULE: Flight trials are due to commence this year for the new light two-stage Soyuz-1 launch vehicle. The test program will last several years and include five launches. Soyuz-1 was derived ...

For the past decade, the unsung hero of human space exploration efforts was the Russian Soyuz rocket. In between the retirement of the American space shuttle and the arrival of the fan-favorite SpaceX ...

Through the most recent mission, STS-130 in February 2010, the shuttle has taken 788 people to orbit (“people” includes repeat fliers—so Franklin Chang Diaz’s seven flights would count as seven people ...

It's called the Gagarin. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The next crew to launch into space will fly on board a vehicle named for ...

Russia has launched an investigation into why a manned space capsule returned to earth hundreds of milesoff course, a space industry official said on Wednesday. Russian space officials denied a ...