"I could have gone on flying through space forever." There is something infinitely poetic about that line spoken by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The first man in outer space, Gagarin defied gravity ...

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MOSCOW, Russia — Crushed into the pilot's seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin saw flames outside his spacecraft and prepared to die. His voice broke the tense silence at ground ...

It's 50 years since the first manned spaceflight. April 12, 2011 — -- Yuri Gagarin. First man in space. For the rest of history his name will rank -- perhaps with Columbus, Magellan, Marco Polo ...

Fifty years ago on April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, ushering in the era of human spaceflight. The rocket carrying Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft blasted ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — The widow of Yuri Gagarin, the ...

Fifty years ago on this day, three months after he became the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin was welcomed in London for a parade where he was given a Rolls–Royce bearing the plates YG 1 to drive.

Yuri Gagarin, the first person to fly into space, will be joining the three-member crew launching to the International Space Station this week, in the form of his smiling face decorating the side of ...

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 5, 2011 file photo, an undated photo of the first man in space Yuri Gagarin and his wife Valentina is on a display at the upper house of Russian parliament in Moscow, ...