Instead, Yuri began to refer to the Ilyushin passenger jet that ferried him around the world as “home.” Meanwhile, his less celebrated colleagues got to fly in space. Gherman Titov orbited ...

These three space farers — Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov, and Mark Vande Hei — surely felt the presence of Yuri Gagarin. And before they left Earth last Friday, they paid tribute to that ...

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 ...

On this day, 60 years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space. To remember this amazing pilot and his ground-breaking feat, Yuri’s Night is a yearly event ...

"On April 12, we celebrate space exploration, we call it 'Cosmonautics Day'. It was on this day in 1961, Yuri Gagarin took first human flight to space. It is of course an occasion to remember ...

Yuri Gagarin as a cadet of the Saratov Flying Club. Wikimedia Commons. 33,062 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?33,062 people played the daily ...