The monumental achievement of sending the first human in space is a cornerstone of the history of space travel. On April 12, ...

On this day in 1961, 27-year-old cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, become the first human in space. Last year, the 50th anniversary of that first flight, the United Nations declared the day International ...

Everyone knows the Wright brothers for their famous first airplane flight in 1903. But the inventor of the modern helicopter was arguably just as influential.

In addition to his youth, intelligence, and physical fitness, Gagarin was a freshly minted pilot with the right ethno-social background. There were over 200 recognized nationalities in the USSR.

Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our civilization and his spirit is still cherished by every space conqueror, NASA astronauts told Russian TASS correspondent on board of the ...

Gagarin’s eventual success in beating off 19 others to man the first flight owed as much to his physical characteristics as to his performance. Standing only 1.57m tall was an advantage in a ...

Yuri Gagarin , who boarded the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 1 in 1961 and made the first manned space flight of mankind, is known for leaving quotes such as 'The earth was blue.' ...

The second part includes paintings selected during the open-call process. Anyone could send their works on the theme of peace, flight, space and the life of Yuri Gagarin himself. The exhibition ...