To the rest of the planet, he was a pioneer, a hero of galactic proportions and the ultimate propaganda weapon. But to his family, Yuri Gagarin was a poetic soul with a passion for Pushkin and ...

Wondering what the trip was like for Yuri Gagarin, who became the first man in space exactly 50 years ago? Look no further than YouTube. On April 12, 1961, the Russian cosmonaut became the first ...

In 1939, MGM released the Ernst Lubitsch comedy Ninotchka with the tagline “Garbo laughs!” to capitalise on the unprecedented novelty of a smile breaking out on the face of the film’s famously ...

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, on April 12, 1961. Born on March 9, 1934, as a young man he experienced a meteoric rise from tradesman and tractor specialist to pilot, ...

Live interview of Major Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut and first man in space, by Richard Dimbleby, Tom Margerison and Yuri Fokin at the Russian exhibition at Earls Court during Gagarin's 1961 visit ...

A movie has been made on the space station that tries to show what Yuri Gagarin might have seen on his historic flight around the Earth in 1961. FirstOrbit, external will have a YouTube premiere next ...

From patriotic songs blaring on the metro to parties on the International Space Station, Russia on Tuesday proudly celebrated 50 years since rocketing Yuri Gagarin into the first human orbit. In a ...

On April 12, 1961, a rocket blasted into space carrying Yury Gagarin, a young Soviet cosmonaut who was about to make history as the first man in space. If Gagarin was nervous, he concealed it well.

The circumstances surrounding the death of the first man in space Yuri Gagarin, who was killed in a 1968 jet crash, have long been clouded in theories and rumors. Now, the first man to walk in space ...