There’s nothing dumber than a technicality, especially when people are putting their lives on the line to do something incredible. If there’s ever a clearer illustration of the critics against ...

And here's another curveball: one of the most famous owners of a Djet, was none other than a certain Yuri Gagarin, or better known as the first man into space. That didn't help Bonnet's or the ...

NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our ...

BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -- Since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in 1961, superstitious Russian cosmonauts have followed his example of watching a certain film and ...

"Man, I gotta pee," Alan Shepard, America's soon-to-be first man in space, radioed to the launch control room from atop his Redstone rocket on May 5, 1961. "Check and see if I can get out quickly ...

MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. Valentina Gagarina, the widow of the world’s first man in space Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, has died at the age of 84, a spokesperson for the Cosmonaut Training ...

Norwegian astronaut Jannicke Mikkelsen made history as the first Norwegian-only citizen in space, onboard SpaceX Fram2 mission.

This is highlighted by memorabilia including a poster of Yuri Gagarin, who was the first man in space, and even a letter from the renowned American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who piloted Apollo 11 and ...

The next step would be a manned mission around the moon. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled ...