Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Vostok 1 capsule, notching a win for the Soviet Union during the Space Race and a huge victory for humanity ...

Egypt paid tribute to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into space, with a series of events in Cairo ...

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 ...

Yuri Gagarin had flown higher (188 miles ... Gaga: I felt fine. The flight was very successful. All the apparatus of the cosmic ship functioned properly. During the flight I saw the earth from ...

The launch itself was at a knife’s edge when the first test flight of Vostok-K rocket failed. Yuri Gagarin during last minute checks of Vostok’s control systems before launch (Picture ...

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 ...

Egypt paid tribute to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey ... 12 April to mark the International Day of Human Space Flight. A Russian delegation laid flowers at a statue ...

Yuri Gagarin as a cadet of the Saratov Flying Club. Wikimedia Commons. 33,950 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?33,950 people played the daily ...