While preparing for the first human-crewed Vostok mission, 27-year-old Yuri Gagarin rose to the top of his class thanks to ...

In April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to go into space, kicking off years of human space ...

Let's go," the robot was heard as 'saying' during launch, apparently repeating the famous phrase by first man in space Yury Gagarin. The silvery anthropomorphic ... "The first stage of in-flight ...