This silent archival film captures a series of rare and intimate moments featuring Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space. The footage shows Gagarin in a variety of ...

Introduction -- The Birth of the Cosmonaut: "Real Cosmonaut Lives" as a Guide to Youth, the Nation, and the World -- The Women: The Collison of Expectations in Domestic and International Politics -- ...

The most persistent myth about Apollo is that the United States faked the Moon landing in a studio and somehow fooled the ...

CLAIM: Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who became the first person to go to space 61 years ago, has been stripped of his honors by the Space Foundation because he is Russian. THE FACTS: The Space ...

New year, new beginnings. This week, the millennium arrives without disruption as the dreaded Y2K bug fails to bite. Elsewhere, milestones mark the turning of the year, from a record-breaking mission ...

On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space. This was the first time cosmonauts completed zero-G training on an airplane.