Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter space more than 62 years ago. It was a massive propeller for technology we depend on today. The race into spa ce was intense between the US and ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ... to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air Forces before being accepted into the ...

3 is Vladimir Lyakhov’s lucky number – for the 3 Soyuz missions he flew, for the 3 space stations he ... is here to celebrate the double anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s journey into outer space and of ...

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), a Soviet Air Force lieutenant, was chosen to be the first human to travel into outer space. His spacecraft launched and landed on April 12, 1961, in an extremely risky ...

A monument to Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who was ... will see the 55th anniversary of Gagarin’s flight. Not only did he opened the door into outer space for humanity. His feat also united ...

April 12: Vostok 1 carries Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit; he is the first human in space. The Soviets refer to Gagarin as a "cosmonaut." The Americans had considered "cosmonaut" as a ...

With NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and her crewmate Butch Wilmore returning to Earth on Tuesday after nine months in space, ...

part-terrier mongrel, picked up on the streets of Moscow—began providing answers, when the Soviet Union launched her into ... so would Yuri Gagarin, the first human being in space.

Russia's veteran cosmonaut, first space ... was sent into a spin by turbulence caused by a supersonic Sukhoi-15 jet that flew past too close. Read also Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic ...

YURI GAGARIN, the first human to travel into outer space, was born on March 9 1934, so let’s celebrate his birthday by remembering the time he embarrassed a British Tory government simply by being ...

He was the second understudy of Yuri Gagarin, had a certificate of cosmonaut number 3. But he never flew into space. Moreover, after the forced separation from the cosmonaut corps, Nelyubov's life ...