BJP MP and former Union Minister Anurag Thakur recently stirred controversy after claiming during a public event that Lord Hanuman was the "first astronaut" who travelled into space. His remark has ...
In April 1961, the Cold War between the East and the West was reaching fever pitch. The US-backed attempted invasion of Cuba was days away. Four months later the Berlin Wall would draw an Iron Curtain ...
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Americans remember Armstrong… but this man was actually first in space
Yuri Gagarin is officially remembered as the first human in space, but for decades, rumors have suggested that someone else ...
It's 35 years since Helen Sharman boarded a space capsule heading into orbit, all thanks to a job ad that she had stumbled ...
The Shocking Death of the First Man in Space—And the Soviet Cover-Up That Hid the Truth for 45 Years
"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin launched into the great beyond, becoming the first human ...
If you were to take off from Earth on a clear day – the kind you want for a launch – you’d see the sky change colours before your eyes. It would shine a bright blue outside your window, becoming ...
April 12, 1961, was a day that changed the future of the world and sparked a new area of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was on that day that a brave young Russian ...
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, a former foundry worker from the village of Klushino in the Soviet Union, ...
That’s what Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin yelled when his rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in what is now Kazakhstan. It means “Let’s go!” Despite American attempts to catch up to the ...
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