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 ...

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.

When it comes to the longest cumulative stay in space, we are not talking about months. The scale, in this case, extends to years. Take, for example, the current record holder, Oleg Kononenko ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the age of 46, he launched to the Mir space station aboard Soyuz TM-6 on Aug. 29, 1988—16 years after becoming a Soviet cosmonaut in 1972.

He paid $20million for a flight aboard Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and spent seven days on the International Space Station (ISS). And since then only a handful of private citizens have made ...