"On April 12, we celebrate space exploration, we call it 'Cosmonautics Day'. It was on this day in 1961, Yuri Gagarin took first human flight to space. It is of course an occasion to remember ...

A sculptural plaque featuring Yuri Gagarin and fellow space pioneers was unveiled at the Russian House in Delhi. Ambassador Denis Alipov emphasized Russia and India's collaborative space efforts. The ...

Egypt paid tribute to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into space, with a series of events in Cairo and Alexandria on 12 April to mark the International Day of Human Space ...

"We in Russia always remember the overwhelming welcome extended to Yuri Gagarin wherever he visited in India, each and every place he visited there were huge crowds, and it was indeed a very ...

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, then 27, became the first human to enter space on April 12, 1961, in a mission seen as one of Russia’s – and humanity’s – greatest achievements. At the time ...

At its heart is the spaceport, and central to the spaceport’s modest visitors area is a small museum where the world’s first astronaut Yuri Gagarin lived ahead of his launch into orbit on a Vostok ...

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 ...

April 15 arrived this year, as always, as Income Tax Day. But an Associated Press “Today in History” list reminded me that on April 15, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in ...