Sure, you remember Neil Armstrong, but are you also a fan of Yuri Gagarin? The Russian cosmonaut became the first human to orbit in space when he flew the Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. On the ...
Neil Armstrong, the Apollo program, Sputnik, Yuri Gagarin, JFK’s Space Race, and the Challenger Disaster all share one fundamental theme — outer space. These phrases, words, and names are from ...
The world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin dreams of flying to the moon. Just like the 12th American astronaut Neil Armstrong. In 1968, the space race between the USSR and the United States reaches its ...
On 12 April 1961, exactly 65 years ago, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made the first human spaceflight in history, ushering in the era of crewed space exploration and paving the way for the study of ...