Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

On April 12, 1961, a human went to space for the first time! Yuri Gagarin was the first Soviet cosmonaut and the first person ...

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Vostok 1 capsule, notching a win for ...

Sixty-four years after Yuri Gagarin's historic spaceflight, India celebrated his legacy and the enduring Indo-Russian ties. A ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, then 27, became the first human to enter space on ...

If cinema is an invitation to escape the real world, there's no better place to go to then the stars. However, while there are plenty of movies about space travel circling the cosmos, which ones ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday praised U.S. billionaire Elon Musk as a visionary akin to Sergei Korolyov, the ...

Gagarin commandeered the first manned space flight on April 12, 1961, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. He arrived in India that November, receiving a rousing ...