Oct. 7: This story has been updated to reflect NASA's postponement of the Europa Clipper launch. Oct. 14: The Europa Clipper launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida 12:06 p.m. Oct. 14.
On Sept. 15, 1968, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 5 spacecraft on a mission to loop around the moon and return to Earth. There were no cosmonauts aboard Zond 5, but there were several smaller ...
In a fiery streak, a hunk of metal scorched across the sky and landed in Kazakhstan to shatter a world record. Upon touching the Earth’s soil, cosmonaut Gennady Padalka had surpassed another Russian ...