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 ...

The plaque depicts Gagarin in a space suit and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ... It was on this day in 1961, Yuri Gagarin took first human flight to space. It is of course an occasion to remember ...

Gagarin’s first space flight in 1961 may not have been that long but it has had a lasting impact. According to French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy, it opened a new era of space exploration.

the Soviet Union shook the world by sending the first cosmonaut into space. Major Yuri Gagarin, a 27-year-old officer of the Soviet Air Force became the trailblazer of manned flights. Sergei ...

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 ...

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 ...

Egypt paid tribute to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into space, with a series of events in Cairo and Alexandria on 12 April to mark the International Day of Human Space ...