Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter space more than 62 years ago. It was a massive propeller for technology ...

YURI GAGARIN, the first human to travel into outer space, was born on March 9 1934, so let’s celebrate his birthday by ...

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Vladimir Lyakhov in Colombo this week. Epic journey: Yuri Gagarin, first man in space Then another figure, 333 – the total number of days he spent in space. Lyakhov even has a joke about it – which ...

Actor Brittany Snow turns 39 and Olympic gymnast Sunisa "Suni" Lee turns 21, among the famous birthdays for March 9.

OSLO, September 14 /TASS/. A monument to Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who was the first man in space has been unveiled in the Norwegian city of Bergen, which Gagarin visited in March 1964.

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 ...

Russia has prided itself as a leading power in space since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into space in 1961. But under Borisov's mandate, an uncrewed Luna-25 spacecraft ...

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.

John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA, which premiered this video to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the flight – and has made it available to share ...

The 1950s and 1960s were the golden age of space exploration. The U.S. and the Soviet Union were locked in a race to the stars. Rockets, astronauts, and satellites filled the headlines. That obsession ...