The Baikonur rocket and missile site in the middle of Kazakhstan is an area of some 90 kms in diameter which is leased to ...

After World War II, Yuri’s father Alexei disassembled the family home and moved it to Gzhatsk (now Gagarin), where it is a museum. Allen Abel This month the heirs of Yuri Gagarin will celebrate ...

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter space ... when it was established at the start of the new millennium, the museum says. The ISS, home to astronauts, cosmonauts and a science ...

"They've got a man up there. It's Gagarin." With those fictionalized words (see video below), spoken by actor Jeff Goldblum in Philip Kaufman's terrific 1983 screen adaptation of Tom Wolfe's "The ...

Some 64 years ago to the day - April 12, in 1961 - Yuri Gagarin rocketed into space as the first human to orbit our planet. Yet more than 60 years after he made his way into history books ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...

These three space farers — Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov, and Mark Vande Hei — surely felt the presence of Yuri Gagarin. And before they left Earth last Friday, they paid tribute to that ...

I recently visited Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, and saw a replica of the re-entry capsule used in the first human spaceflight in history. Yuri Gagarin ...