Yuri Gagarin remains one of the most celebrated figures in the history of space exploration. Born in 1934 in a small village in the former Soviet Union, he grew up with a fascination for aircraft and ...

Fifty-five years ago today, the first human ever traveled in space. Russian cosmonaut — the astronaut version for the Russian Space Agency — Yuri Gagarin was only 27 when he made his historic ...

Fifty years ago on April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, ushering in the era of human spaceflight. The rocket carrying Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft blasted ...

Sixty years ago Monday, a 27-year-old Russian test pilot named Yuri Gagarin strapped into a Vostok capsule in Central Asia and rode into orbit atop a launcher derived from a Soviet nuclear missile, ...

Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 mission was plagued by spinning modules, a near-fatal reentry, and a landing that technically disqualified him from the record he made history for. The Soviet Union buried the ...

It happened when Earth was still in black and white: 50 years ago we stepped outside our home planet for the first time. This is the tale of the beginning of an adventure that hasn’t ended yet, the ...

Wondering what the trip was like for Yuri Gagarin, who became the first man in space exactly 50 years ago? Look no further than YouTube. On April 12, 1961, the Russian cosmonaut became the first ...

Sixty years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel in space when he completed his historic orbit of Earth on April 12, 1961. It was an extraordinary achievement, but ...

On April 12, 1961 the first human flew in space. “I see Earth! It is so beautiful!" said 27-year old Yuri Gagarin, the Russian cosmonaut who was chosen among thousands for the mission. The flight ...

Yuri Gagarin was the first man in outer space, when he orbited the earth in the first manned space flight exactly fifty years ago. Gagarin was for a brief time the most famous man on earth and hailed ...

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The Space Foundation – an internationally-known space advocacy nonprofit based in Colorado Springs – found itself at the center of a social media firestorm after news spread online that it had renamed ...