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 ...

Everyone knows the Wright brothers for their famous first airplane flight in 1903. But the inventor of the modern helicopter ...

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 became a global hero in 1961 when he became the first human to travel into space. But just seven years later, he ...

But the U.S.S.R. was a step ahead. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space, successfully circling our planet for 108 minutes.

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 ...

and the flight implemented by our fellow countryman Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, the pioneer envoy of earth men to space, who accomplished a 108-minute round-the-world rapid flight in a near-earth orbit.

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 ...