On April 12, Yuri Gagarin flew faster and higher than any human ever - marking a monumental victory for the Soviet Union in the cold war-era space race.
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This day in history: The first American goes to space
In the late 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a Space Race. The Soviets had already taken an early ...
On April 12, 1961, Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth aboard Vostok 1. The mission lasted just 108 minutes, but a malfunction during re-entry introduced serious risk ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering cosmonaut, ...
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