Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky ...
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter space more than 62 years ago. It was a massive propeller for technology we depend on today. The race into spa ce was intense between the US and the ...
As Vostok 1 made history in April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, but the most dangerous part of the mission was hidden for years. From a violent re-entry spin to the truth about ...