[Yuri Gagarin: Photos of the First Man in Space] The Soyuz rocket's decoration reproduces the logo for the "Year of Yuri Gagarin," a jubilee celebration announced by Roscosmos in late February.

[Vostok 1: Yuri Gagarin's Historic Manned Spaceflight Recalled (Video)] Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! The Soviet government, military and ...

April 12, 2011 — -- Yuri Gagarin. First man in space ... and an equipment module in back for rocket engines, fuel and support equipment. As Gagarin neared the end of the flight, engines ...

The Vostok rocket was the brainchild of Soviet engineer ... (Popovich would have his turn aboard Vostok 4 in August 1962.) Enter Yuri Gagarin, who ticked all the boxes: He was the son of a ...

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter space ... was at a knives’ edge when the first test flight of Vostok-K rocket failed. Its capsule never reached the orbit and landed back ...

Fifty years ago on April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, ushering in the era of human spaceflight. The rocket carrying Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft ...

Crushed into the pilot's seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ... capsule, Gagarin whistled a tune. “Poyekhali!” — “Off we go!” — he shouted as the rocket blasted ...

Former Soviet Union air force Col. Igor Kuznetsov is trying to shed light on the 1968 death of Gagarin, and event that has provoked conspiracy theories ranging from assassination to alien ...

Four days after Yuri Gagarin returned from his flight ... After injection into orbit, when the carrier rocket was separated, a state of weightlessness began. In the beginning this feeling was ...

This rocket, recognisable by the four boosters ... The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin, that his superiors had made the right decision: "Yuri turned out to be the man that everyone loved.

MOSCOW, Russia — Crushed into the pilot's seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri ... rocket explosion at blastoff or after. Authorities drafted three versions of a bulletin about Gagarin ...