See how the first human spaceflight actually occurred when the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth for 108 minutes to usher ...

Building off the historic successes of Vostok, the Soviet Union continued their list of firsts with the Voskhod program, which consisted of only two missions. Voskhod 1, which lifted off on Oct ...