Satellite history is littered with "firsts." Many early space launches constituted key moments in the Cold War space race and ...

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 ...

"Yuri Gagarin (Angel) and the fighters went through all the locations of people, at present, conversations have been held ...

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 ...

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Space exploration has always been fascinating for its mysteries, making people look beyond the planet and uncover the hidden ...

More animals would follow, and just three years later, in April of 1961, so would Yuri Gagarin, the first human being in space. The mutt, however, preceded the man—as well as all of the other ...

Moscow has completed restoration of the Yuri Gagarin monument on Leninsky Prospekt, Sergei Sobyanin writes on his Telegram channel. The 42.5-meter monument is the world's first large-scale monument ...

While you were sleeping, people just like you have actually begun to travel into space. We were invited behind Virgin ...

A few years later, he was selected to be one of the USSR's first class of 20 cosmonauts, alongside Yuri Gagarin who, in 1961, became the first person in space. The two became the best of friends.

Getty Images Missions by Soviet cosmonauts including Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, worried the US It was in that year the Soviet Union made the first ever manned ...

Exploring dazzling Uzbekistan on Central Asia’s Silk Road - Travelling on the high-speed train from medieval Samarkand to ...