The Tragic Story Of Laika, The Soviet ‘Canine Cosmonaut’ Who Made Space History In 1957
On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...
TASS7 年
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s bust unveiled in Bethlehem
TASS/. The unveiling of a bust of the Earth’s first man who went into space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin took place in downtown Bethlehem on Friday. The bust has been installed in a park ...
scmp.com2 天
Celebrating the first human in space on Yuri’s Night
On this day, 60 years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space. To remember this amazing pilot and his ground-breaking feat, Yuri’s Night is a yearly event ...
TASS10 年
Russia marks the 80th birth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin
SMOLENSK, March 09, 22:20 /ITAR-TASS/. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, would have turned 80 on March 9. The 80th anniversary of the legendary cosmonaut’s birth was marked ...
RBTH11 年
Space Invasion
This memorable date requires no explanation in Russia: the day when legendary Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft made mankind's first ever voyage into space. Not only is ...
来自MSN1 个月
Yuri Gagarin, First Human in Space (1961)
Simple History Yuri Gagarin, First Human in Space (1961) Posted: December 11, 2024 | Last updated: December 11, 2024 At age 27 on the morning of 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was helped ...
Christian Science Monitor7 个月
Space photos of the day: Yuri Gagarin
That’s the case in embattled Ukraine. Take borsch. Ukrainians pointedly leave off the T, which Russian transliterations include. Their beet-based staple comes in far more vibrant forms (and ...
来自MSN11 个月
Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Kononenko, smashes the record for the most time spent in orbit ...
in 1957 - and then Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space in 1961. That distinction belongs to Valeri Polyakov, who lived aboard the Mir space station between ...
PBS7 年
The Soviet Lunar Program & the Space Race
cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin ... In Borman's view, "they beat us to the punch first off. Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit ... they beat us to a space walk ... the first woman in ...
BBC1 年
The Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1959, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first person to travel into space. American President John F. Kennedy was under pressure to stand up to the communist Soviet Union.
BBC5 年
Russian space pioneer Valery Bykovsky dies aged 84
"Bykovsky belonged to the first generation of Soviet cosmonauts, who wrote many bright ... with Valentina Tereshkova and Yuri Gagarin (R) Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky was born on the 2 August ...