On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin made history aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1. He completed a full orbit of the Earth in just ...
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The Soviet cover-up behind Gagarin's Vostok 1 landing
Yuri Gagarin never landed inside his spacecraft, and the Soviet Union spent a decade burying the truth. What really happened ...
"I could have gone on flying through space forever." There is something infinitely poetic about that line spoken by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The first man in outer space, Gagarin defied gravity ...
Representatives from all republics of the USSR worked on the first human spaceflight. The contribution of Belarusians was ...
MOSCOW, Russia — Crushed into the pilot's seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin saw flames outside his spacecraft and prepared to die. His voice broke the tense silence at ground ...
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 ...
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link 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 ...
On 12 April 1961, the Soviet pilot named Yuri Gagarin embarked on a journey into space, the first one in human history. It ...
MOSCOW, Russia — Crushed into the pilot's seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin saw flames outside his spacecraft and prepared to die. His voice broke the tense silence at ground ...
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