Science news articles about 'yuri gagarin'

... -like Sputnik. Then there is the tiny Vostok capsule used by Major Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.After two decades of Russia's apparent lost interest in cosmic exploration, space ...

... in space."I want to represent my country, and to be one of the men like Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin, who showed with all humility what it is to be a good human," said Iraq's pioneer cosmonaut. In ...

... moment a hundred million people around the world also started breathing again. Apollo was momentous in a way that Yuri Gagarin's first, heroic orbit could never have been. Gagarin ...