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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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It will soon cost $250,000 for a seat instead of $200,000, company officials say.
See photos of Virgin Galactic's private spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, as it undergoes testing for future space tourism flights.
Lunokhod 1 last trekked across the lunar surface more than four decades ago.
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Planetary Resources hopes to loft a set of cubesats to Earth orbit by this time next year.
SpaceX's Grasshopper rocket is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) designed to return rockets for reuse.
Robots aren't yet capable of exploring the Red Planet's most promising environments.
NASA had been splitting costs with the U.S. Deparment of Energy.
Mars One will do its best to avoid disturbing potential Red Planet life.
The private Mars One project officially launched its search for astronauts to colonize the Red Planet.
A bold Mars flyby slated for 2018 will make its closest approach on Mars' night side.
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Pavel Vinogradov became the oldest person to venture into the vacuum of space.
You can't see any footprints, but it's still neat to observe the six Apollo landing sites through a telescope.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield shares some vital tips to life in space in this video guide.
Expedition 35 flight engineers Pavel Vinogradov and Roman Romanenko worked outside the International Space Station on April 19, 2013.
Two Russian cosmonauts began a six-hour spacewalk to upgrade the orbiting lab with new experiments.
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