Because it lacks the funding to modernize its most historic launch pad, Russia now instead plans to turn “Gagarin’s Start” into a museum. The pad is known as Gagarin’s Start because it hosted the ...

The transfer of "Gagarin's Start", the launchpad for the world's first spaceflight, will be finalised by June. View on ...

On the morning of April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin fell out of the sky onto a quilt of farmland growing wheat and rye in the Russian village of Smelovka. He unhooked his parachute and strolled, waving, ...

BJP MP and former Union Minister Anurag Thakur recently stirred controversy after claiming during a public event that Lord Hanuman was the "first astronaut" who travelled into space. His remark has ...

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to venture into space on April 12, 1961. What Happened: Gagarin achieved many firsts on that day — including becoming the first person to orbit the ...

According to the corporation, this needs to be done to preserve historical heritage and increase the attractiveness of Baikonur’s tourist area MOSCOW, October 14. /TASS/. The Site No. 1 (or Gagarin's ...

Russian military attacks in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv have left an enormous crater in a stadium that was once named after one of Russia's most famous people from history—Yuri Gagarin, the first ...

April 12, 1961, was a day that changed the future of the world and sparked a new area of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was on that day that a brave young Russian ...

Forty-five years ago, on April 12, 1961, the Vostok-1 spacecraft riding atop a Soyuz booster lifted Soviet Air Force Major Yuri Gagarin 200 miles above the Earth and carried him once around the planet ...

The Brunel Museum and the Royal Albert Hall represent two sides of Victorian London: the celebration of high culture and of engineering and “progress”. And although it has none of the elaborate ...