Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight aboard Vostok 1 was far more dangerous than the world was told. Hidden failures during reentry nearly turned humanity’s first step into space into a fatal disaster, ...

Vostok-1, the first manned spaceship, landed empty, as Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made an early exit via parachute and touched down a few kilometers away. AFP/Getty Images The “space race” of the ...

Russian officials have continued to criticise the U.S. state department on social media this week after the agency did not mention cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in a Facebook post about "International Day of ...

In case you weren't aware, today is the 60th anniversary of humans first leaving the Earth and venturing out into space. That first human was Yuri Gagarin, citizen of a country that's no longer really ...

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to venture into space on April 12, 1961. What Happened: Gagarin achieved many firsts on that day — including becoming the first person to orbit the ...

April 12, 1961, was a day that changed the future of the world and sparked a new area of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was on that day that a brave young Russian ...

Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight changed the world, but the most dangerous moments happened during re entry, hidden behind decades of secrecy. From spinning capsules to falsified records, this is the ...

Fifty years ago today, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter outer space. In doing so, he didn’t just take humanity into a bold new era of exploration – he also got to see our ...

On the morning of April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin fell out of the sky onto a quilt of farmland growing wheat and rye in the Russian village of Smelovka. He unhooked his parachute and strolled, waving, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This medal commemorates this first ...