At age 27 on the morning of 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was helped into his spacesuit and made his way to the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday removed the head of Russia's space agency after a tenure of less than three years ...

There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn ...

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Vladimir Lyakhov in Colombo this week. Epic journey: Yuri Gagarin, first man in space Then another figure, 333 – the total number of days he spent in space. Lyakhov even has a joke about it – which ...

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), a Soviet Air Force lieutenant, was chosen to be the first human to travel into outer space. His spacecraft launched and landed on April 12, 1961, in an extremely risky ...

If Russians are gripped by a yearning for an imaginary past, they will not fight for a better future.

All plinth and no body: Belgrade's tribute to Yuri Gagarin has not been well received A tribute to the first man in space recently unveiled in the Serbian capital Belgrade has caused dismay ...

He was replaced by deputy transport minister Dmitry Bakanov, who before joining the government had been in charge of a ...

I was 20 years old and a member of the 7th Cavalry near the DMZ in South Korea when the first Space Shuttle was launched in 1981. The launch took place, not intentionally, on the 20th anniversary ...

LJUBLJANA, October 18. /TASS/. A monument to the first man in space, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was unveiled on Tuesday in the Croatian capital city Zagreb to mark the 55th anniversary of the ...