In the 1960s, this was the exact story of Rene Bonnet, who built his own little sports car from scratch (and with a bit of technical help from Renault), but then couldn't sell enough of them to keep ...

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 ...

The Kremlin dismissed the head of Russia's space agency on Thursday after a tenure of less than three years scarred by the ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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.

USSR tech race and this artificial intelligence edition between the US and China, there are key differences — with global implications ...

He was replaced by deputy transport minister Dmitry Bakanov, who before joining the government had been in charge of a ...