History "I hope you will never see this letter" Yuri Gagarin's note to his wife and daughters in 1961 Mark Frauenfelder

Space Two Italian brothers claimed to have recorded dying Soviet cosmonauts that Moscow erased from history Ellsworth Toohey

tabloids Monkeypox is a Chinese bioweapon in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books New rare book catalogue features a Soviet Space Race picture book with backyard-built rocket Rebecca Romney

COVID-19 When COVID-19 came to Star City Miss Cellania

Space Why do cosmonauts piss on a wheel of the bus transporting them to the launch pad? David Pescovitz

Space Space beer: coming soon to an unforgiving airless void near you Séamus Bellamy

Science Today is the anniversary of the first woman in space David Pescovitz

Science Stunning short film about the Apollo moon landing made from astronauts' photos David Pescovitz

science fiction Sci-Fi Sundays: Amazing Science Fiction, April 1958 Caleb Kraft

Space Steven Hawking wants to send tiny 'nanocraft' space probes to Alpha Centauri Xeni Jardin

Party Under the Space Shuttle at Yuri's Night L.A. with Buzz Aldrin, Nichelle Nichols, Samantha Cristoforetti Xeni Jardin

ok go OK Go's new video was shot in zero gravity Mark Frauenfelder