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 ...

Embark on a cosmic journey with Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space! From his humble beginnings to the historic Vostok 1 mission, discover the man who took us to the stars!

to put into space a man, Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin. The first manned flight around our planet Earth was perceived as a common success of the entire Mankind and caused much exultation throughout the ...

40th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s and humanity’s first flight into space. Dubbed ‘Yuri’s Night’, organizers currently have planned 61 separate events in 28 countries on 6 continents.

Yuri Gagarin pictured beaming a few months after his successful one-orbit flight in 1961. AP Gagarin’s cancellation can be added to a long list of Russian or Russian-associated things that have ...

In 1961, Soviet Union pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history when he became the first person in the world to travel to space.

The stadium subject to the shelling was once named after Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who became the first person to travel into outer space. His flight took place on April 12, 1961—61 ...

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.' ...