On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

This was the first satellite that NASA launched toward the South Pole in an attempt to put it in a polar orbit On Feb. 28, 1959, the U.S. Air Force launched a new spy satellite prototype called ...

Lyakhov grew used to seeing outlines of continents beneath him and by their sixth month he could tell exactly where the space station was positioned with a quick glimpse. Though neither Lyakhov nor ...

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), a Soviet Air Force lieutenant, was chosen to be the first human to travel into outer space. His spacecraft launched and landed on April 12, 1961, in an extremely risky ...

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter space more than 62 years ago. It was a massive propeller for technology ...