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 ...

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 ...

It has been 30 years since his friend and fellow cosmonaut Yuri ... where Gagarin studied engineering, hash over their theories once again. A few in the audience—which consists of space ...

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.

It is a question that has lingered for more than 40 years: How did the first man in space really die? Experts have struggled to explain how a pilot as proficient as Yuri Gagarin could have ...

He was said to have been in training for a second mission to space. It was a solemn moment for the Soviets. "It is officially announced here that Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin, the world's ...

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.