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Fifty Years of Human Spaceflight
Human spaceflight has come a long way over the last 50 years since the launch of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961 during the Vostok 1 mission. SPACE.com looks at just how far spaceflight has come and what's on the horizon.
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The first female shuttle commander, six-time flier and scientist astronaut are joining Astronaut Hall of Fame.
NASA has signed a $17.8 million deal with Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace for one of its expandable modules.
See images and photos of space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow's vision for private inflatable space stations.
An old video series on the International Space Station gets remixed by a video production website.
Canadian spaceflyer Chris Hadfield has racked up about 130,000 new Twitter followers in the last few weeks.
The space agency has signed a contract with Bigelow Aerospace for an inflatable habitat.
AXE is looking for 22 people with the "right stuff" to fly in space.
President Richard Nixon made the first Earth-to-moon phone call during the historic Apollo 11 mission.
Mars One has released its basic astronaut requirements.
NASA will hold a press conference on Wednesday to discuss the agency's Commercial Crew Program.
The record-setting Mars500 mission locked six men in a mock spaceship for 520 days.
NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, a Notre Dame alum, will watch Notre Dame battle Alabama from the International Space Station.
Astronauts are using ultrasound to measure how their spines extend while in weightlessness.
A proposed $2.6 billion asteroid-retrieval mission could help jump-start manned exploration of deep space, proponents say.
The space trash compactor could give new life to old water bottles, clothing, duct tape and other astronaut waste.
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Neil Armstrong said in 1969 that he did think about his first words on the moon beforehand, space historian Andrew Chaikin says.
See photos of Dragon, Grasshopper and other SpaceX rockets taken since the company was founded in 2002.
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