Yuri Gagarin is officially remembered as the first human in space, but for decades, rumors have suggested that someone else ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 12, 1961, a human went to space for the first time! Yuri Gagarin was the first Soviet cosmonaut and the first person to ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 12, we celebrate the 65th anniversary of the first human spaceflight, the Russian Embassy in Abuja recalled in a statement yesterday. On this day in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became ...

Alan Shepherd became the first American in space on May 5, 1961 - it was NASA’s first Mercury mission. The flight was the ...