NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our ...

Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man in space on 12 April 1961. Major Gagarin orbited the Earth for 108 minutes, travelling at more than 17,000 miles per hour ...

TASS/. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) honors Yuri Gagarin as the first person in space, the agency said on Twitter. "We celebrate the International Human Space Flight ...

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), a Soviet Air Force lieutenant, was chosen to be the first human to travel into outer space. His spacecraft launched and landed on April 12, 1961, in an extremely risky ...

Kennedy's speech, which came just six weeks after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to reach outer space, had a huge impact on NASA and space exploration. It jump-started the agency's ...

Saturn's Death Star. A NASA spacecraft suffers a malfunction in orbit - can its lone astronaut make it back to Earth? Plus, new evidence emerges over Yuri Gagarin's ...

NASA astronaut Flight Surgeon Thomas H ... AlMansoori and AlNeyadi pause for a thumbs up during training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia. Photograph courtesy Mohammed ...