On June 19, 1963, two Soviet spacecraft named Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 returned to Earth, ending a historic joint mission. Vostok 6 was carrying cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman ...
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108 minutes that changed humanity forever
In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin climbed into Vostok 1 knowing that Soviet launches failed about half the time, then trusted automation to carry him into orbit and back. We break down the real engineering ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The former Soviet Union began manned space flight on April 12, 1961, when they launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit around the Earth aboard ...
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March 9, 1934: The birth of Yuri Gagarin
Born on March 9, 1934, to Russian farmers, Yuri Gagarin worked as a foundry apprentice and attended a technical high school where he joined the "AeroClub." In 1955, he began military flight training, ...
In this clip from the 1967 Soviet movie A Cruise to the Stars, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is shown training for his historic mission as engineers test various systems of the Vostok capsule. Accepting the ...
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