On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would later carry the first cosmonauts into space. Inside the spacecraft was a ...

An 80-year-old man donated a rare original parachute dummy from D-Day to a museum - after mistaking it for a scarecrow. Robert Bowley from Braintree, Essex, was clearing out his late brother's ...