Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Vostok 1 capsule, notching a win for the Soviet Union during the Space Race and a huge victory for humanity.

On April 12, 1961, a human went to space for the first time! Yuri Gagarin was the first Soviet ... His mission was called Vostok 1, and it involved both a Vostok rocket and Vostok space capsule.

This memorable date requires no explanation in Russia: the day when legendary Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft made mankind's first ever voyage into space. Not only is ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first ... orbiting the globe once in his craft, Vostok 1. Officially, he came back to Earth in his capsule. Though it subsequently emerged ...

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 ...

Today, Gagarin's first flight, aboard the Soviet spacecraft the Vostok 1, is the stuff of legend ... But there is, of course, "Yuri's Night," a collection of events held around the world each ...

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.

"He [Bowie] had always fantasized about flying in space ... for him it was just like a gift," said Hadfield of his "Space ...

It has been 30 years since his friend and fellow cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin died in a MiG ... The apparent simplicity of Gagarin’s Vostok 1 mission—a single orbit, with no piloting required ...

Egypt paid tribute to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human ... s historic 1961 mission aboard Vostok 1, which made him the first person in space, as well as his state visit to Egypt ...