Yuri Gagarin etched his name into history as the first person in space. What followed, however, was a series of events wrapped in secrecy. This video uncovers the rise and mysterious fall of a man ...

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Vostok 1 capsule, notching a win for ...

But it was the drama that occurred when Loenov re-entered the spacecraft that nearly made him the first person to die in space. The first EVA carried numerous risks and unknowns, one of which ...

"Legendary cosmonaut" Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, the first person to walk in space, has died in Moscow aged 85. Russian space agency Roscosmos confirmed his death on its website, but gave no ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...