Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible ... but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended.

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 ...

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 ...

Here's a look at some others who found themselves stuck in space — by choice or not — along with some cool spaceflight ...

She spent more than 70 hours orbiting the Earth, two years after Yuri Gagarin’s first human-crewed flight in space. Her spaceflight was broadcast on television and watched by citizens in the ...

Weren’t space missions meant to get easier with ... Despite nearly 64 years since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s first spaceflight in April 1961, human missions remain challenging.

Of that total, 102 are women. The first person in space was the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961.