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A trip to the Moon on foot would take nine years. Mercury's temperature ranges from -280°F to 800°F. Jupiter is so large it could hold all other planets with 70% of its volume remaining. The ...

October 24, 1960 - The first space-related fatalities occur when a rocket explodes at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, killing 165 people, including Air Marshal Mitrofan I.

Before the space race even properly began, experts were already making plans for orbiting space stations where people could live and work. Those goals initially took a back seat as the Soviet Union ...

NASA entered a new chapter in its prestigious history of space exploration when the shuttle was retired in 2011 after 30 years. The space agency relied on Russia to get U.S. cargo and astronauts to ...