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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1950s and 1960s were the golden age of space exploration. The U.S. and the Soviet Union were locked in a race to the ...

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 ...