Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Vostok 1 capsule, notching a win for ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, then 27, became the first human to enter space on ...

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, orbiting the earth once before landing ...

It has been 30 years since his friend and fellow cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ... Soviet space hardware was cause for grave misgivings. Korolev’s “Cannonball,” the spherical Vostok capsule in ...

Yuri Gagarin had flown higher (188 miles ... Fedorov’s account suggested that the cosmonaut landed inside his space capsule, but according to other sources in Russia, Major Gagarin parachuted ...

A former NASA scientist explains how we know whether Blue Origin New Shepard made it to space, and how its altitude compares ...

But an Associated Press “Today in History” list reminded me that on April 15, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the ... “New Shepard” booster and capsule combo after him) became the first ...

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 ...