At age 27 on the morning of 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was helped into his spacesuit ... Berlin zoo offers first public glimpse of panda cubs 23 Legendary Wild West Films That Will ...

When Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in his spacecraft, Vostok 1, he was one of the most famous people on earth. The lesser known stories of his demise and the brains behind the technical ...

More animals would follow, and just three years later, in April of 1961, so would Yuri Gagarin, the first human being in space. The mutt, however, preceded the man—as well as all of the other ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

I recently visited Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, and saw a replica of the re-entry capsule used in the first human spaceflight in history. Yuri Gagarin ...

MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. A portrait of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, was projected onto the facade of Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world, TASS reports from the site.

As the final days tick down for the UAE’s first human ... training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia. Photograph courtesy Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre and GCTC Discover ...

honors Yuri Gagarin as the first person in space, the agency said on Twitter. "We celebrate the International Human Space Flight Day, honoring the accomplishments of the first person in space in ...

A must-see attraction is the Museum of the History of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in the heart of the facility. It ...

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