When Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in his spacecraft, Vostok 1, he was one of the most famous people on earth. The lesser known stories of his demise and the brains behind the ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings ... orbiting the globe once in his craft, Vostok 1. Officially, he came back to ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule ... program was reapplied to ferry crews to space stations. Salyut 1, the first space station in history, reached ...

when Yuri Gagarin started off into orbit on the Vostok 1 spacecraft. At present, three carrier rockets of the R-7 family are in service: medium Soyuz-2.1a and Soyuz-2.1b rockets, as well as light ...

He climbed into the Vostok spacecraft, wondering if he would return back to earth, but was calm. Andy Reid avoids potential fine from the NFL with clever response about Chiefs' grueling schedule ...

At one point, the two Vostok spacecraft were said to have come within ... But the first flight, Soyuz 1, crashed into the ground at high speed in April 1967 after its parachutes failed, killing ...