Ultimately, the laser pistol’s practicality was limited by its low power, the fragility of space environments, and the unlikelihood of astronaut-on-astronaut combat.

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

We ventured deep into the Kazakhstan desert to uncover one of the Soviet Union’s most secretive and ambitious Cold War ...

India’s partnership with Axiom Mission 4 is crucial, as it prepared Shukla to lead the country’s human space mission, ...

Director Joseph Pelfrey paid homage to the thousands of workers whose careers have placed them at Marshall since its founding ...

Michael Kelly, who retired from The World-Herald in 2018, writes on the anniversary of the first international human ...

The mission was also Tom Stafford's last spaceflight. The Apollo Command Module Pilot, Vance Brand, would go on to fly on ...

On July 15, 1975, the first joint space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union blasted off into orbit. They called it the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. This mission ceremoniously marked ...

US President Donald Trump's plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism ...

On July 15, 1975, an Apollo spacecraft launched carrying a crew of three and docked two days later on July 17, with a Soyuz spacecraft and its crew of two.