Tag: Yuri Gagarin

The Vostok capsule, in which Yuri Gagarin embarked on April 12, 1961 to become the first person in space.  This ...

A few weeks ago I told you a bit about "First Orbit", a marvelous documentary by Christopher Riley which practically ...

Today, we celebrate 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into outer space, thus becoming the first human being to do ...

Exactly 30 years ago, the first orbital space shuttle launch took place, marking the start of a slew of successful ...

Yuri Gagarin, a soviet astronaut was the first man to ever go into outer space, exactly 50 years ago, when ...

Tuesday will mark the 50th year since human space flight, since the day Yuri Gagarin left Russia and became the ...

As long as space and science is concerned, April is clearly Yuri Gagarin month, the first man in space, celebrating ...

It's a pretty busy period for the people over at the International Space Station (ISS). Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome last night ...

While almost anyone in the world has an image in their head of  Neil Armstrong making mankind's hugest steps, in ...