First private spacewalk makes history

On 2 November 2000, a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first full-time crew of the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 1’s Bill Shepherd, Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko

This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba

The best discoveries, inventions and surprises

GH ’s editor-in-chief, Jane Bruton, steps on board for the very first time

Meet the astronaut breaking new frontiers in space.

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