When Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in his spacecraft, Vostok 1, he was one of the most famous people on earth.

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.

NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our ...

Gemini 4 was one of the highlights of the space conquest of the 1960s ... Ed White, floating alone in infinity, symbolizes the ultimate freedom: that of a man exploring a totally new territory. But ...

The next step would be a manned mission around the moon. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled ...

Raja Chari was among the new astronauts who received silver pins marking their graduation at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston ... NASA aims to put a man and a woman on the moon in 2024.