The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...

They had already launched Sputnik and sent Yuri Gagarin to orbit the ... The closed-cycle rocket engine design. Image via Wikipedia The Russian space program was largely controlled by one man ...

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was ... 5’2” tall Russian military pilot. He would become a star after the launch of the Vostok space capsule on April 12, 1961. Gagarin’s physique was perfect for ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers ... atop a Proton rocket on April 19, 1971.

Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...

This year will mark the 60th anniversary since a Vostok rocket orbited a Vostok-1 spacecraft with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on its board. Gagarin became the world’s first human in outer space.

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 ...

The name Gagarin, that of the first man in space, tops the Internet shortlist of names for a new-generation manned transport spacecraft, the press service of Russia’s Energia Rocket and Space ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

What do you get when you fold together the contributions of four space station-bound astronauts from the U.S., Japan and ...

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 ...