It was 1986, and the Cold War was still as icy as ever. The Iron Curtain was drawn; the US was busy illegally selling arms to ...

On October 31, 2000, a momentous event marked a turning point in humanity’s presence in space. That day, the Soyuz TM-31 capsule launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying three ...

He launched aboard a Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft to the Russian Mir-18 on March 18, 1995, and landed on NASA's shuttle Atlantis on July 7th of that year. He ultimately spent 115 days in space on the ...

He self-funded a trip aboard the Russian Soyuz TM-34 mission to the International Space Station. The journey cost Shutteworth around $20 million and required nearly a year of rigorous training.

Facilities on board the international space station are fairly basic, but that doesn't mean astronauts and cosmonauts haven't spent months up there.

He paid a reported $20 million for the trip aboard the Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft and spent seven days in orbit, making history as the world’s first space tourist.

Krikalev blasted into space in May 1991 on Soyuz TM-12, for what he assumed to be a routine mission to Mir. The experienced cosmonaut and his crew spent their first days in orbit carrying out ...

In July of that year, Krikalev was asked - and agreed - to stay on the space station as a flight engineer for the next crew who were due to arrive in October abroad the Soyuz TM-13. When they ...

On March 22, 1995, Polyakov boarded the Soyuz TM-20 spacecraft, alongside Aleksandr Viktorenko and Yelena Kondakova, to return to Earth.

He paid $20million for a flight aboard Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and spent seven days on the International Space Station (ISS).