Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter ... was the first great ape in space (it survived the landing). Gagarin’s capsule is described as basic by modern standards.

I recently visited Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, and saw a replica of the re-entry capsule used in the first human spaceflight in history. Yuri Gagarin ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first ... Officially, he came back to Earth in his capsule. Though it subsequently emerged that he actually parachuted to safety when it ...

Vladimir Lyakhov in Colombo this week. Epic journey: Yuri Gagarin, first man in space Then another figure, 333 – the total number of days he spent in space. Lyakhov even has a joke about it – which ...

OSLO, September 14 /TASS/. A monument to Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who was the first man in space has been unveiled in the Norwegian city of Bergen, which Gagarin visited in March 1964.