On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... s internal atmosphere and he could not re-enter the airlock. Bleeding the suit beyond ...

Space.com reported Monday. He was the first Jewish-American man to enter space. The Israeli post office produced only 200 sheets of the stamps. Sheets are being sold online for $100 to $360.

But all being well, it won’t be a man we watch make those first tentative steps in his space suit – rather, it will be a woman. That woman could well be astronaut Alyssa Carson, an 18-year-old ...

In 1985, a Jewish-American astronaut read from the Torah in space. Jeffrey Hoffman, the first Jewish-American man to go into space, consulted a rabbi on how to observe Judaism on his first trip ...

The first man-made satellite passes overhead ... Hailed as a hero, he will later leave the space program to enter politics. Eventually he will be elected to the U.S. Senate from Ohio.

but it could slip — then Whitson will be the first person to enter the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame while in orbit, after 109 enshrinements on the ground. That would be the latest record for Whitson, ...