Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in Earth orbit. Learn more about her life, career and ...

April 12: Vostok 1 carries Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit; he is the first human in space. The Soviets refer to Gagarin as a "cosmonaut." The Americans had considered "cosmonaut" as a ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...

Simple History Yuri Gagarin, First Human in Space (1961) Posted: December 11, 2024 | Last updated: December 11, 2024 At age 27 on the morning of 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was helped ...

Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit ... a voyage that would be a decisive victory in the Space Race. But their administrators faltered at the challenge. Cosmonaut Leonov blames the chief ...

Decades after the end of the space race, an American rocket took off ... They had already launched Sputnik and sent Yuri Gagarin to orbit the Earth. All in all, the Russians seemed poised to ...

OSLO, September 14 /TASS/. A monument to Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who was the first man in space has been unveiled in the Norwegian city of Bergen, which Gagarin visited in March 1964.

As I age, I am truly amazed at how brief our lives truly are. Fifty-six years ago, we on Planet Earth were treated to a ...

A space race developed between the US and the then ... Getty Images Missions by Soviet cosmonauts including Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, worried the US It ...

USSR: Fierce rivals in the Space Race The USA and the USSR believed ... Once again those pesky Ruskies beat them to it and in 1961 Yuri Gagarin was launched into orbit aboard Vostok 1.

Did you guys know the Space Race was one of the craziest rivalries in history? 🚀💥 It was this epic competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, both trying to outdo each ...