Astronaut Jean-Jacques Favier, the sixth Frenchman to go into space during a flight aboard the American shuttle Columbia, died at the age of 73, announced on Friday News
Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who logged the single longest stay in space, has died at the age of 80. Polyakov launched on two missions to the space station Mir. In total, he was off Earth for 678 days.
As NASA again prepares to set sail "on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure" ever embarked, the agency s leaders returned to where JFK stated, "we choose to go to the moon."