Guy Laliberte, the larger-than-life Canadian entrepreneur behind the Cirque du Soleil phenomenon, announced Thursday he would fulfil a childhood dream by becoming the seventh space tourist. Laliberte, 49, whose dramatic reinvention of the circus has netted him a 2.5-billion-dollar (1,76 billion-euro) fortune, described his journey into space, planned for September 30, as a "poetic, social mission." Speaking from ...

A Russian and US space crew denied on Friday that new rules forbid them from sharing toilets and food in orbit, hailing their work as the "best partnership" in human history. "We are still working our partnership together, but please don't make a mistake," US astronaut Michael Fincke said at the crew's first news conference since returning from ...

Russian and American astronauts on Friday downplayed suggestions of disputes on the international space station over access to food and equipment. U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke, Russian Yuri Lonchakov and American space tourist Charles Simonyi made the comments to reporters two days after returning to Earth. In a newspaper ...