Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 31, 1990, the Soviet Union launched a new module to the Mir space station. ['On This Day in Space' Video Series on ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...

Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghanistan ’s first citizen in space, has died at age 67, his family and friends said. A national hero, Momand died from cancer on June 21 in a hospital in Stuttgart, Germany, ...

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As Jerry Linenger looked out from his porthole window on the space station Mir, his eyes were searching for that familiar, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 31, 1990, the Soviet Union launched a new module to the Mir space station. The new component was named Kristall, and it was ...