said that his journey to becoming an astronaut began in 2018-19, and he spent his training period during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City ...

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 ...

May 5 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th ... One month earlier on April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first ...

The Gagarin’s Start, also known as Baikonur Site 1 or Site 1/5, holds deep historical significance. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into space from this pad. The Earth ...

The Gagarin’s Start, also known as Baikonur Site 1 or Site 1/5, holds deep historical significance. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into space from this pad. The Earth’s first ...

He became a Group Captain in March 2024. In 2019, Shukla was selected by ISRO for astronaut training. He underwent rigorous training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia before ...

The United Nations has declared 12th April as the International Day of Human Spaceflight to commemorate the first human journey into space by Yuri Gagarin in 1961. In his special message on the ...

Radio reports identified the “cosmonaut” as Major Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, 27. According to the official announcement, the Vostok had blasted off from an unidentified launching pad at exactly ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit poses for a crew portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. The accomplished astronaut has now accumulated 590 days in space over four missions, ranking third on ...

For more than a decade, the wall on the post-Cold War Zvezda featured politically neutral photos of Sergei Korolev, the founder of the Soviet space program, and Yuri Gagarin. Around the time ...