NASA has taken the opportunity of the International Day of Human Spaceflight on Tuesday to commemorate Yuri Gagarin’s role in space exploration. "Today is the International Day of Human Space Flight—marking Yuri …
The Russian Embassy in the United States has reproached the U.S. State Department for distorting the memory of the first Earth cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. "Regrettably, the U.S. State Department has again demonstrated memory loss …
Yuri Gagarin belied the West's austere impression of the Soviet Union – a charming, easygoing Russian with a ready smile
Tomorrow, the exhibition titled “Going Toward Stars” by a cosmist artist Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky opens in the State Museum of Oriental Arts. It is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. You can …
Russia celebrates Cosmonautics Day every April 12. This holiday was instituted by the April 9, 1962 executive order of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) in honor of the first manned space flight. This year marks the …
For almost 20 years, Russians have viewed the first man in space Yuri Gagarin, singer-songwriter and actor Vladimir Vysotsky and Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov as the 20th century’s key …
The carrier rocket with the Vostok spacecraft was launched on April 12th, 1961 at 09:07 AM from the Baikonur cosmodrome, located in the steppes of the Kazakh SSR. The member of the First Troop cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin was the first man in the …
Astronautics allows us to smooth over contradictions and unite members of the society, making them the people of the world. Executive director of the manned space program of Roskosmos, Sergei …
Russia is celebrating the Day of Cosmonautics on April 12. The decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium on the celebration of this day was signed on April 9, 1962. On April 12, 1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri …
