Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

Yuri Gagarin, the first person to travel to space, was warmly welcomed in India following his historic 1961 spaceflight. A plaque was unveiled in Delhi to commemorate his visit and celebrate the ...

the Miss Astronaut outfit came out only after Soviet-era cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made history by orbiting Earth in 1963. And that was two years after the world's first human in space, Yuri ...

PARIS, April 8. /TASS/. The world’s first human in space Yuri Gagarin remains an example for all the generations of cosmonauts, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told TASS on Thursday.

Sometime in the late 1990s—Yuri Gawdiak can’t remember when exactly—he started hearing from NASA astronauts that they were chronically overscheduled in orbit. There was never enough time for ...

Those who experienced it include some of the most famous names in space history, including Yuri Gagarin, Michael Collins and Sally Ride - and say only fellow astronauts can truly know what it ...

Of that total, 102 are women. The first person in space was the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren't the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls short of any endurance record.