(WHTM) On July 15, 1975, two rockets blasted off into space. The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 19 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery ...

MaiaSpace will convert the French Guiana launch pad built for the Soyuz rocket for its own small reusable launch vehicle. Credit: MaiaSpace WASHINGTON — The French space agency CNES has selected ...

Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, now the world's most experienced spaceman, first-time flier Nikolai Chub and NASA veteran Tracy Dyson undocked from the International Space Station and returned to Earth on ...

While the commercial Polaris Dawn crew geared up for the first non-government spacewalk, a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off on a more traditional spaceflight Wednesday, launching to ...

Space travel’s documentarians have long been preoccupied by departures — launchpads engulfed in billowing smoke and flames shooting from ascendant rocket boosters. But after seeing footage of a ...

Fifty years ago, on July 15, 1975, three NASA astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts lifted off to meet up in orbit for the first time. Representing the joint Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP, or ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American blasted off Wednesday for an express trip to the International Space Station. The space capsule atop a towering rocket set off at ...

Liftoff of the Soyuz MS-27 mission is scheduled for Tuesday (April 8) at 1:47 a.m. ET. Three astronauts will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) early Tuesday morning (April 8), and ...

In recent comments to the Russian state-run media service TASS, the chief of Roscosmos said the country’s newest rocket, the Soyuz-5, should take flight for the first time before the end of this year.

The Soyuz-2.1v being transported in Plesetsk. The large nozzle in the center of the core stage is NK-33A, surrounded by four smaller RD-0110R vector control engines. Credit: Russian Defense Ministry ...