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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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NASA must set some plans for going to Mars soon if it wants to arrive by the 2030s.
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U.S. dependence on Russian spaceships could last beyond 2017 without full support, Charlie Bolden says.
An iconic sight, a NASA space shuttle atop a 747 jumbo jet, will land at a Houston museum soon.
That's about $8 million more than the previous going rate.
Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo customers could be flying by the end of the year.
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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