When Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in his spacecraft, Vostok 1, he was one of the most famous people on earth.

NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our ...

Simple History Yuri Gagarin, First Human in Space (1961) Posted: December 11, 2024 | Last updated: December 11, 2024 At age 27 on the morning of 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was helped ...

On this day, 60 years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space. To remember this amazing pilot and his ground-breaking feat, Yuri’s Night is a yearly event ...

OSLO, September 14 /TASS/. A monument to Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who was the first man in space has been unveiled in the Norwegian city of Bergen, which Gagarin visited in March 1964.

These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

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The race to get the first person into space was eventually won by the USSR, when Yuri Gagarin became the first cosmonaut to orbit the earth in April 1961. Valentina Tereshkova became the first ...

alongside Yuri Gagarin who, in 1961, became the first person in space. The two became the best of friends. In March 1965, Leonov got his first flight on Voskhod-2, the first spacewalking mission.

As the final days tick down for the UAE’s first human space ... training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia. Photograph courtesy Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre and GCTC ...