Yuri Gagarin had flown higher (188 miles ... but I had to hold the notebook. Otherwise it would have floated away. I maintained communications over different channels and tapped the telegraph ...

He was the face of the space race - until his life was cut short. This video uncovers the remarkable rise and tragic end of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit Earth. From global fame to secretive ...

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 ...

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 ...