Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to enter space more than 62 years ago. It was a massive propeller for technology we depend on today. The race into spa ce was intense between the US and ...

Gagarin was the ideal poster boy ... was feted by foreign leaders and became a hero to schoolchildren around the globe. The US managed to shoot a human – Alan Shepard, who later went on to ...

YURI GAGARIN, the first human to travel into outer space, was born on March 9 1934, so let’s celebrate his birthday by ...

Nikita Khrushchev, who was the proud Russian leader when the Soviet Union beat the United States to space, gave Gagarin a number of privileges. But he was treated merely as a military pilot during ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA, which premiered this video to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the flight – and has made it available to share ...