Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man in space on 12 April 1961. Major Gagarin orbited the Earth for 108 minutes, travelling at more than 17,000 miles per hour ...
On this day, 60 years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space. To remember this amazing pilot and his ground-breaking feat, Yuri’s Night is a yearly event ...
The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the ... who later went on to walk on the moon – into space weeks later on 5 May, and then only on a short sub-orbital flight.
float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission, part of the Soviet Union’s attempt in competition with the US to reach the moon. Leonov’s walk on 18 March 1965 ...
Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our civilization ... "It was an honor to get to walk in his footsteps during our preparation and launch from Baikonur. His spirit lives ...
PARIS, April 8. /TASS/. The world’s first human in space Yuri Gagarin remains an example for all the generations of cosmonauts, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told TASS on Thursday.
In Borman's view, "they beat us to the punch first off. Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit ... they beat us to a space walk ... the first woman in space, the first multiple crew in space." ...
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 ...
The race to get the first person into space was eventually won by the USSR, when Yuri Gagarin became the first ... became the first person to perform a space walk. The American space programme ...
All plinth and no body: Belgrade's tribute to Yuri Gagarin has not been well received A tribute to the first man in space recently unveiled in the Serbian capital Belgrade has caused dismay ...