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 ...

But the first woman in space was actually a Soviet cosmonaut who beat out 400 applicants to pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft in ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...

April 12: Vostok 1 carries Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit; he is the first human in space. The Soviets refer to Gagarin as a "cosmonaut." The Americans had considered "cosmonaut" as a ...

Epic journey: Yuri Gagarin, first man in space Then another figure ... the Motherland is comfortably ahead in the space race. He attributes this in part to the unique outlook of his compatriots.

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), a Soviet Air Force lieutenant ... His life was a story of the sorrow of a young man who was used as a weapon in the space race between the United States and the Soviet ...

Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit ... a voyage that would be a decisive victory in the Space Race. But their administrators faltered at the challenge. Cosmonaut Leonov blames the chief ...

OSLO, September 14 /TASS/. A monument to Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who was the first man in space has been unveiled in the Norwegian city of Bergen, which Gagarin visited in March 1964.

Now, the former premier, who had led the early years of the race to space, was reduced to following ... when they launched Yuri Gagarin on a one-orbit, 88-minute flight, making him the first ...

USSR: Fierce rivals in the Space Race The USA and the USSR believed ... Once again those pesky Ruskies beat them to it and in 1961 Yuri Gagarin was launched into orbit aboard Vostok 1.

YURI GAGARIN, the first human to travel into outer space, was born on March 9 1934, so let’s celebrate his birthday by remembering the time he embarrassed a British Tory government simply by being ...