Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter ... The space race is thought to have ended when Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon on July 20, 1969 from Apollo spacecraft.

The history-making feat was accomplished by American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ... This was consumed by Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union, on April 12, 1961.

Neil Armstrong had said of Gagarin ... (A new book ‘Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin’ alleges that Komarov made his sacrifice knowingly.) That same year, the American’s lost the ...

I’m Neil Armstrong. These are my buddies Buzz ... In 1961 the USSR sent a man into space, Yuri Gagarin. The USA promised to be first to put a person on the Moon. They did this in July 1969 ...

On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to ... becoming the first woman to orbit the Earth on 16 June 1963, Neil Armstrong becoming the first human to set foot upon the ...