If there’s ever a clearer illustration of the critics against Theodore Roosevelt’s “man in the arena,” it’s Soviet space pioneer Yuri Gagarin and the naysayers who believe he wasn’t ...

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 ...

Experts have struggled to explain how a pilot as proficient as Yuri Gagarin could have perished in an airplane crash. The official 1968 investigation was inconclusive. Over the years, theories and ...

It has been 30 years since his friend and fellow cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin died in a MiG crash, and Leonov still can’t reconcile the loss. “We were all fighter pilots. Every fighter pilot has ...

Returning to earth was an equally daunting challenge for Gagarin. The Vostok I descent vehicle capsule landed empty as Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space ...