On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would ...
Blue Origin says its next spaceflight is set to make history with the first all-woman flight since the Soviet Union's ...
It is noted that the Vostok 2022 strategic maneuvers will bring together over 50,000 troops and more than 5,000 items of armaments and military hardware MOSCOW, August 29. /TASS/. The Vostok 2022 ...
The last time a spaceflight had only females on board was the solo flight by Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova who became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963 on the Vostok 6 mission.
Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake Ontario. But unlike Lake Ontario, Lake Vostok sits beneath more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of wind-blown ...
Blue Origin has lined up what would be the first all-female crew to launch to space since a Soviet woman’s solo launch in 1963, and that one had a lot less Grammy winners on board. Pop singer Katy ...
Tereshkova, now 87, was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first woman in space during her solo Vostok 6 mission on 16 June 1963. According to the press release, Sánchez “brought the mission ...