It’s been more than six decades since Alan Shepard launched on his famous suborbital flight. What would think of the U.S.

His flight would last just 108 minutes ... and this is where some people get stuck on Yuri Gagarin. The FAI’s rules for manned spaceflights stated that, just like the aircraft pilots had ...

When Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin became the first man to step foot in space he was declared a national hero by the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev who barred him from going into space again because ...

Allen Abel This month the heirs of Yuri Gagarin will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his flight into orbit. They are his daughters and his widow, his nieces and cousins, his space-going peers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aged 25, Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, lasting 34 hours. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space when he ...

International Day of Human Space Flight was observed on Saturday ... Day of Human Spaceflight to commemorate the first human journey into space by Yuri Gagarin in 1961. In his special message on the ...