The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7 ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history ... went on to walk on the moon – into space weeks later on 5 May, and then only on a short sub-orbital flight. But the gauntlet was picked ...

Aged 25, Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, lasting 34 hours. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space when he ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

NASA astronaut Flight Surgeon Thomas ... up during training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia. Photograph courtesy Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre and GCTC Discover more ...

Twenty years to the day since Yuri Gagarin flew in Vostok 1 ... was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been ...

marking the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human to go into orbit. For years, Russia had a monopoly on manned space flight but last year Nasa astronauts were taken to the ISS ...

His record-setting solo flight saw him spend five days in space aboard the Vostok 5, orbiting the Earth 82 times. Bykovsky was among the first group of USSR cosmonauts alongside Yuri Gagarin ...