The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first ... orbiting the globe once in his craft, Vostok 1. Officially, he came back to Earth in his capsule. Though it subsequently emerged ...

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 the ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule ... program was reapplied to ferry crews to space stations. Salyut 1, the first space station in history, reached ...

I recently visited Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, and saw a replica of the re-entry capsule used in the first human spaceflight in history. Yuri Gagarin ...

PARIS, April 8. /TASS/. The world’s first human in space Yuri Gagarin remains an example for all the generations of cosmonauts, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told TASS on Thursday. "For all of ...

Gagarin was the first man in the world to perform a space flight aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12 ... the world’s first man in outer space Yuri Gagarin and fly around Earth in one ...