On June 19, 1963, two Soviet spacecraft named Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 returned to Earth, ending a historic joint mission. Vostok 6 was carrying cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman ...

While preparing for the first human-crewed Vostok mission, 27-year-old Yuri Gagarin rose to the top of his class thanks to ...

On this day in 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova became the first woman to travel in space, having been launched into orbit aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6, which completed 48 orbits in 71 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a one-third scale model of ...

The photograph taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 Aug. 23, 1966, of a crescent Earth above the lunar horizon, along with the digitized and enhanced version released Nov. 13, 2008, by the Lunar Orbiter Image ...

An international panel of scientists will discuss research conducted at Lake Vostok in Antarctica at a press conference on Tuesday, May 28, as part of the American Geophysical Union’s 2002 Spring ...

This is a one-third scale model of the spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet pilot, into space making him the first person to orbith the Earth on April 12, 1961. The Vostok 3KA spacecraft ...