Denali, Alaska: Known as North America's tallest peak, Denali has recorded temperatures as low as -83°C at its summit.

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

The Russian government said early Thursday (Dec. 5) that the new wintering complex at the country's Vostok Station in Antarctica had been put into operation. In a post on X, the Russian embassy in ...

A new winter complex has been put into operation at the Vostok station in Central Antarctica (...) The new polar house will be used for the first time by the participants of the 70th Russian ...

MOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has handed down instructions to deliver the modules of the Vostok research station’s winter complex to Antarctica in 2021. According to ...

These include the Russian Vostok station and the Dome A weather station several miles away. Each has relatively low temperatures because it is on land 10,000 feet above sea level, largely because ...

Tereshkova is now the last person alive to have flown in a Vostok ("east" in Russian), the first generation ... which docked in orbit with the Salyut 6 space station on 28 August 1978.

Subsequent missions by the Soviet Union under the Vostok, Voskhod, Soyuz Programs and Mir space station inspired scientists, engineers and explorers. On April 19,1971, the Soviet Union launched ...