In an unpredictable era that has seen the Cold War rekindled, it's worth remembering a remarkable event that took place 50 years ago when the first crewed international space mission, carried out ...
For Whitson it was the “real-life lunar landing” in 1969 by the U.S. Apollo 11 mission ... the day Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made the first crewed flight into space in 1961.