Yuri Gagarin and the many faces of modern Russia -- A victor's congress baby -- The industrial boys -- The chief designer -- The flight that launched a thousand rumors -- Exegesis -- Homo sovieticus - ...
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The hidden crisis of Vostok 1, how Yuri Gagarin nearly died during the first human spaceflight
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 ...
The world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin dreams of flying to the moon. Just like the 12th American astronaut Neil Armstrong. In 1968, the space race between the USSR and the United States reaches its ...
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