At age 27 on the morning of 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was helped into his spacesuit and made his way to the launch pad.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday removed the head of Russia's space agency after a tenure of less than three years ...

There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn ...

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 ...

For Whitson it was the “real-life lunar landing” in 1969 by the U.S. Apollo 11 mission, while Uznański-Wiśniewski felt drawn ...

Vladimir Lyakhov in Colombo this week. Epic journey: Yuri Gagarin, first man in space Then another figure, 333 – the total number of days he spent in space. Lyakhov even has a joke about it – which ...

Although it takes up just one room, this exhibition at Bath's Holburne Museum is a fresh and "fascinating rethink" of a ...

I was 20 years old and a member of the 7th Cavalry near the DMZ in South Korea when the first Space Shuttle was launched in 1981. The launch took place, not intentionally, on the 20th anniversary ...

Ever since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into space in 1961, Russia has prided itself as a leading power in space exploration. But its ambitions suffered a massive blow ...

If Russians are gripped by a yearning for an imaginary past, they will not fight for a better future.

The Site No. 1 (or Gagarin's Start) - the oldest launchpad at the Baikonur spaceport - is where the first artificial earth satellite and the Vostok spaceship carrying the first man in space, Yuri ...