Soyuz

A Soyuz TMA-17M blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome last night, as it undertook a journey to the International Space Station. However, soon after reaching space it became apparent that the spacecraft's port solar array had failed to open.

SpaceX announced on Thursday that it has delayed the scheduled launch of the third commercial flight of its unmanned Dragon cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS) that would have seen the first mission of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with its landing legs.

January 19, 2009 Forty years ago this week saw one of the most spectacular escapes from death in recorded history. Soviet Commander Boris Volynov was returning to earth in Soyuz 5 when the service module failed to separate and he found himself entering the earth’s atmosphere with an inverted craft a