Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Vostok 1 capsule, notching a win for the Soviet Union during the Space Race and a huge victory for humanity.

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter space more than 62 years ago. It was a massive propeller for technology we depend on today. The race into spa ce was intense between the US and ...

The capsule landed 108 minutes later with Gagarin parachuting the final leg of the journey, the first man to have flown in space, the first to orbit our earth.I am among that generation of men and ...

Gagarin’s historic mission on April 12, 1961 would be his only trip into space, in part because of his tragic death in a plane crash in 1968. Via NASA.

When Yuri Gagarin flew around the Earth in 1961, there was no video recording of what he saw — we only have an audio recording of his astonished observations.

Beat the Market With Our Free Pre-Market Newsletter Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to venture into space on April 12, 1961.

On this day in 1961, 27-year-old cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, become the first human in space. Last year, the 50th anniversary of that first flight, the United Nations declared the day International ...

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, then 27, became the first human to enter space on April 12, 1961, in a mission seen as one of Russia ’s – and humanity’s – greatest achievements.

Sixty-two years ago today, on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to venture beyond Earth’s atmosphere into space. The achievement rocked the world, not only ...

At 10:15 a.m. Moscow time, said Gagarin, he was over Africa, and the spaceship’s automatic controls signaled that back in Russia preparations were being made to turn on a braking device ...

Reading Gagarin's Autobiography In OrbitOn 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit Earth in his Vostok spacecraft that launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, now in Kazakhstan ...

The world is celebrating a big date - the 90th anniversary of the birth of the first cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin. He was the first man into space and will remain so forever.