So was the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, who also became the first ... Nobody thought that he might have to wait in his capsule for about four hours before the launch. When he asked to ...

According to the book Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin ... his craft with little power. The space agency ordered his descent, but his capsule began to spin.

I recently visited Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, and saw a replica of the re-entry capsule used in the first human spaceflight in history. Yuri Gagarin ...

On a press trip to watch an Inmarsat launch in Baikonur, he sat in the training capsule used by Yuri Gagarin when he was the first man in space. He was poached from his own business by Motorola to ...

Later reports indicate that Laika died soon after liftoff, from stress and high temperatures inside the capsule ... cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit; he is the first human in space.

On this day, 60 years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space. To remember this amazing pilot and his ground-breaking feat, Yuri’s Night is a yearly event ...

Today is the International Day of Human Space Flight—marking Yuri Gagarin's 1961 first flight, and the first Space Shuttle launch in 1981, the agency said NEW YORK, April 12. /TASS/. NASA has ...

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 ...