On April 12, 1961, a human went to space for the first time! Yuri Gagarin was the first Soviet cosmonaut and the first person to orbit the Earth. This was the Soviet Union's next big move in the ...

At 11:10 a report was broadcast that at 10:25 Gagarin had completed one circuit of the earth and that the spaceship’s braking rocket had been fired. This was the perilous point when the Vostok ...

At 9:34 a.m, Eastern Standard Time, the Redstone rocket barreled away from Earth ... the Museum has put on display two 1:3 scale models of the Vostok 3KA and Mercury capsules.

The rocket also served as a basis for the three-stage Vostok Rocket that inaugurated the era of manned flights on April 12, 1961, when Yuri Gagarin started off into orbit on the Vostok 1 spacecraft.

he proposed the clustered-booster idea for the famous R-7 rocket, he oversaw the design of Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok rocket, and he supervised the development of the first Soviet moon probes.

Within minutes, the automated rocket reached a maximum height of 346,802 ... was launched on a solo mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6, becoming the first woman in space and the only woman ...

Aisha Bowe made history as the aerospace engineer on Blue Origin’s first all-female flight to the edge of space — the first such mission since Valentina Tereshkova’s solo journey aboard Vostok 6 in ...