As Sunita Williams awaits her return from the ISS, recounting the shocking story of a man, who literally 'fell' from space in 1967
Soviet Union, the original plan involved launching two spacecraft, Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 2, into orbit. Soyuz 1, carrying ...
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In the steps of Gagarin
Epic journey: Yuri Gagarin, first man in space Then another figure ... Instead, Gagarin’s friend, Vladimir Komarov became the first man to die in spaceflight – a whopping 203 errors were discovered in ...
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Monument to first man in space Yuri Gagarin unveiled in Norway
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was the Russian prime minister at that time, attended the unveiling of the first monument to Gagarin in Le Bourget in France in June 2011. Yuri Gagarin spent ...
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NASA astronauts say world’s first man in space Gagarin ‘changed civilization forever’
NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri ... with instructor Vladimir Seryogin on March 27 ...