Is there a new space race going on between Warner Music owner Len Blavatnik and SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, the pioneer of private space travel? We hear Blavatnik was at the Sotheby’s ...

On April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. See photos of the historic ... Yuri Gagarin seen dressing in a heating/cooling garment worn under his orange pressure suit.

Over the years, space wardrobes evolved from ponderous spacesuits to flight suits that are sleeker and more flexible. The first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, and the first American in space, John ...

Yuri Gagarin's SK-1 Suit Roscosmos/Evgeny A. Sivukhin On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ushered in the era of manned spaceflight aboard Vostok 1.

It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated United States to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri ...

On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space, launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1). Gagarin seen dressing in a heating/cooling garment worn ...

See Also: How To Invest In Space Startups. On re-entry, Gagarin walked out of the spacecraft in a bright orange suit and a large white helmet, according to the ESA, and was seen by a farmer and ...

So, exploring space means using special suits that allow astronauts to breathe and stay at the right temperature. In 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin wore the first spacesuit; since then, they have ...

New Delhi, Apr 12 (PTI) A sculptural plaque depicting in bas-relief legendary cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin -- the first human to travel to outer space -- and two other space pioneers from Russia was ...

Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was the perfect poster boy for the Soviet space programme. The son of a carpenter, he was born in Klushino, Smolensk, 160km west of Moscow, in 1934.

Then, in 1961, 27-year-old cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, beating NASA's Alan Shepard by three critical weeks. Here, a celebration of a Russian genuine trailblazer.