The transfer of "Gagarin's Start", the launchpad for the world's first spaceflight, will be finalised by June. View on ...

Some 64 years ago to the day - April 12, in 1961 - Yuri Gagarin rocketed into space as the first human to orbit our planet. Yet more than 60 years after he made his way into history books ...

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 ...

On this day, 60 years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space. To remember this amazing pilot and his ground-breaking feat, Yuri’s Night is a yearly event ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...

Experts have struggled to explain how a pilot as proficient as Yuri Gagarin could have perished in an airplane crash. The official 1968 investigation was inconclusive. Over the years, theories and ...

The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) is a Russian facility responsible for training cosmonauts for their space missions. It is located in Star City, known in Russia as Zvezdniy ...

NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our ...

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 ...