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Yuri Gagarin was a 27-year-old Soviet Air Force pilot when he made his first and only trip into space. Upon his triumphant return he instantly became a national treasure, ...

Then, in 1961, 27-year-old cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, beating NASA's Alan Shepard by three critical weeks. Here, a celebration of a Russian genuine trailblazer.

The successful one-orbit flight made Yuri Gagarin a hero and cemented Soviet supremacy in space until the U.S. put a man on the moon more than eight years later.

Yuri Gagarin was celebrated as the first man to orbit Earth. But he didn’t make a complete orbit, almost died due to equipment failures, and ejected too early — landing in a potato field.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1. After parachuting from the craft near the Russian village of Smelovka, Gagarin landed a hero ...

Yuri’s Night is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight, Yuri Gagarin’s launch and orbit around the Earth. The flight on April 12, ...

Yuri Gagarin's flight inspired a new wave of science fiction -- yes, in the West, but also in the U.S.S.R., which produced classics such as the Andrei Tarkovsky film, "Solaris." ...

"Yuri's Night" will still celebrate Gagarin's trip to outer space, as well as "other space milestones past, present and those to come," the foundation's statement says.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1. After parachuting from the craft near the Russian village of Smelovka, Gagarin landed a hero ...