Beyond the airlock: 60 years of spacewalks

WORLD SPACE WEEK SPECIAL

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

Meet the astronaut breaking new frontiers in space.

ANDY Saunders has taken his passion for space travel and photography and turned it into something very special for the whole world to enjoy. His books, the international bestseller “Apollo Remastered”

In the 17th century, the great maritime nations were vying to solve a puzzle that had confounded philosophers for many centuries: how to determine exact positions on the Earth’s surface. And in Britai