Yuri Gagarin made history as the first human in space when he launched aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. Celebrated worldwide as a symbol of Soviet space dominance, his legacy remains legendary. But ...

There’s nothing dumber than a technicality, especially when people are putting their lives on the line to do something incredible. If there’s ever a clearer illustration of the critics against ...

A space conference held in honor of famed Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has been renamed because he was Russian. In a now-deleted announcement, the non-profit Space Foundation said that “in light of ...

Tomorrow the world marks 52 years since Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight into space and 32 years since the first launch of the Space Shuttle. Scientists, artists, educators, and fans of space will be ...

Forty years ago the famous Gagarin’s words "Let’s go!" have started the beautiful April morning of our great Motherland. That day the Mankind saw itself as a single intelligent and powerful ...

Today is a special day – we're celebrating the International Day of Human Spaceflight! It was on April 12, 61 years ago, that Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin carried out the first human space flight, ...

CLAIM: Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who became the first person to go to space 61 years ago, has been stripped of his honors by the Space Foundation because he is Russian. THE FACTS: The Space ...