Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov holds the record for the longest single stay in space, hanging out on the Mir space station for 437 days (January 1994 to March 1995).

When proposed in 1964, it had three parts: the Almaz military surveillance space station, Transport Logistics Spacecraft for delivering soldier-cosmonauts and cargo, and Proton rockets for ...

EDF's debt has spiralled as its business has been hit by a price cap and repairs to dozens of power stations Energy prices may have jumped to unprecedented highs, but for France's state-controlled ...

Earlier, a TASS source said Sergei Volkov had submitted his resignation, while two other cosmonauts were removed from flights for medical reasons MOSCOW, April 24. /TASS/. The inter-departmental ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...

Pioneering cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov died on Friday in Moscow aged 85. With his passing, the world has lost another direct connection to the Cold War space race of the 1960s and 70s.

Soyuz MS-12 launched from Baikonur on March 14 with cosmonaut [Aleksey Ovchinin] and NASA astronauts [Nick Hague] and [Kristina Koch] onboard, destined for the ISS after a six-hour flight.

Created in 2003, five years after French energy company EDF Group (Électricité de France) bought Seeboard, London Energy and SWEB Energy, EDF is the UK’s largest producer of low-carbon ...

A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts, traveling together on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, increasing the number of people aboard to 12.

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

Could you imagine spending nearly two and a half years in space? Well, that's exactly what one Russian cosmonaut has achieved. Oleg Kononenko has just set a new world record for the total time in ...

EDF has launched what it claims is the cheapest energy-only fixed tariff among the “major suppliers”, the equivalent of £68 cheaper than the Ofgem price cap level coming in the next month.