Clervoy commemorated the anniversary of Gagarin’s remarkable this year not just because of it being the 60th year. “I celebrate the Yuri Gagarin night every year. Gagarin was the first in space.

A mission to Venus! A next generation spacecraft! Sixty years after the Soviet Union made history by launching Yuri Gagarin into space on April 12, 1961, Russia continues to have lofty ...

Some 64 years ago to the day - April 12, in 1961 - Yuri Gagarin rocketed into space as the first human to orbit our planet. Yet more than 60 years after he made his way into history books ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, then 27, became the first human to enter space ...

when 27-year-old Flight Major Yuri Gagarin, who was born on a collective farm west of Moscow and who was the son of a carpenter, became the first human to ever enter outer space. Today ...

On this day, 60 years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space. To remember this amazing pilot and his ground-breaking feat, Yuri’s Night is a yearly event ...

On June 16, 1963, 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova ... locked in an intense space race at the height of the Cold War. Yuri Gagarin, who became the first human in space in 1961, put immense ...

After World War II, Yuri’s father Alexei disassembled ... I ask whether she would have surrendered 50 years of her life, as Gagarin did, to have been the first in space.

It has been 30 years since his friend and fellow cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin died in a MiG crash, and Leonov still can’t reconcile the loss. “We were all fighter pilots. Every fighter pilot has ...