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 ...

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.

Two Russian cosmonauts have returned to Earth after spending a record-breaking 374 days on the International Space Station. Even more impressively, one of them — 60-year-old Oleg Kononenko ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

EDF Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the French state-owned EDF Group (Electricité de France), one of Europe’s largest energy companies. It says it 'is a sustainable and responsible energy ...

In a remarkable display of international cooperation, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Vladimirovich Gorbunov is set to lead a ...

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 ...

Also flying with be Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi making his second trip to space and rookie Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. It went ahead and pulled the trigger to ...