Some of the photographs show Gagarin training for his space flight while others show the celebrations in Moscow after his triumphant return. "On April 12, 1961 64 years ago Soviet cosmonaut Yuri ...

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 ...

It was on this day in 1961, Yuri Gagarin took first human flight to space. It is of course an occasion to remember numerous achievements of all humankind in space exploration. But also to note the ...

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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, a Soviet Air Force pilot and cosmonaut became the first human ever to travel into outer space on this day in 1961. What Salary You Need To Be Middle Class in Every US State Big ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

61 years ago, humanity reached space for the second time with NASA 's Project Mercury. On the morning of May 5, 1961, naval aviator and test pilot Alan B. Shepard Jr. hopped onto the Freedom ...