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 ...

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 ...

When Yuri’s Night, an organization dedicated to forwarding the cause of space exploration by holding events around the world each April 12, held over 120 parties on a single day in 2007, it was viewed ...

In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, but the full story of his return to Earth was quietly rewritten by Soviet officials. Decades later, declassified details revealed how close the ...

Sure, you remember Neil Armstrong, but are you also a fan of Yuri Gagarin? The Russian cosmonaut became the first human to orbit in space when he flew the Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. On the ...

Yuri Gagarin was born in the small Russian village of Klushino, near Gzhatsk (renamed Gagarin in 1968, after his death) to parents Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin, who worked as a carpenter and bricklayer, ...

April 12, 1961, was a day that changed the future of the world and sparked a new area of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was on that day that a brave young Russian ...

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. But now, for the first time, the crew of ...

Over the last two months, Yuri’s Night has received hundreds of outstanding and inspiring space-themed videos, photos, and advertisements from around the world, and even more entries for our Global ...

On the morning of April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin fell out of the sky onto a quilt of farmland growing wheat and rye in the Russian village of Smelovka. He unhooked his parachute and strolled, waving, ...