Egypt paid tribute to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into space, with a series of events in Cairo and Alexandria on 12 April to mark the International Day of Human Space ...

At its heart is the spaceport, and central to the spaceport’s modest visitors area is a small museum where the world’s first astronaut Yuri Gagarin lived ahead of his launch into orbit on a Vostok ...

The Gagarin’s Start, also known as Baikonur Site 1 or Site 1/5, holds deep historical significance. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into space from this pad. The Earth ...

It has been 30 years since his friend and fellow cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin died in a MiG crash, and Leonov still can’t reconcile the loss. “We were all fighter pilots. Every fighter pilot has ...

If there’s ever a clearer illustration of the critics against Theodore Roosevelt’s “man in the arena,” it’s Soviet space pioneer Yuri Gagarin and the naysayers who believe he wasn’t ...

The Gagarin’s Start, also known as Baikonur Site 1 or Site 1/5, holds deep historical significance. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into space from this pad. The Earth’s first ...

File photo: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's Vostok spacecraft's landing capsule is seen on display at Moscow's Museum of Cosmonautics on April 9, 2021. File photo: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's ...

One month earlier on April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space when he orbited Earth at an altitude of 187 miles aboard Vostok 1. "Sixty-four years ...

Radio reports identified the “cosmonaut” as Major Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, 27. According to the official announcement, the Vostok had blasted off from an unidentified launching pad at exactly ...