...Soviet Union's Sputnik and the victories of Russia's Yuri Gagarin in April 1961 and Alexei Leonov's spacewalk in March 1965...Apollo 11| NASA| Neil Armstrong| Sputnik| Yuri Gagarin Sign up to Flight Digital Magazine Flight Print Magazine...

...Images Sputnik Sputnik Yuri Gagarin NASA astronaut Alan Shephard being...replica of the rocket that launched Yuri Gagarin in his Vostock 1 capsule A replica of the rocket that launched Yuri Gagarin in his Vostock 1 capsule NASA’s...

...had beaten the US into space with Yuri Gagarin’s flight the previous month...achievement in doing the deed. 13. Yuri Gagarin – first manned space flight Archive...images/discussion Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin wrote himself into history in the course...

...is the way to go. 13 Moment: Yuri Gagarin – first manned space flight Archive...images/discussion Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin wrote himself into history in the course...object in space. A carpenter’s son, Gagarin learned to fly at technical high school...

...website acknowledges that it was very much a Cold War riposte to the Soviet Union, which had beaten the US into space with Yuri Gagarin’s flight the previous month. Having survived the catastrophic start to the programme of losing three astronauts in...

...signal as it orbited the Earth. Sputnik, Laika the dog, Gagarin, Shephard, Glenn, Tereshkova - all of these seminal missions...artificial satellite 12 April 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is first man to orbit the Earth 5 May 1961: NASA astronaut...

...Soviet Union for the press conference following cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight and eventually was based in the US to cover...posted in this story: Sputnik| Sputnik 1| Yuri Gagarin Sign up to Flight Digital Magazine Flight Print Magazine...

...overt manoeuvring across the Atlantic to put obstacles in the way of Concorde. On 12 April 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 became the first human in space and the first to orbit the Earth, followed a month later by US astronaut Alan...

...and the USA nearly 40 years ago. Yuri Gagarin flew into orbit and Alan Shepard made...course in cosmonaut training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, near Moscow...1997, a group of doctors attended the Gagarin centre to undergo training, so that...

...a bicycle ergometer during physiological tests at the Yuri Gagarin cosmonauts' training centre (also known as Star City...Moscow. Links posted in this story: Soyuz| Yuri Gagarin Sign up to Flight Digital Magazine Flight Print Magazine...

...unthinkable in the Cold War days of Sputnik, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and the "space race", or even a decade ago, when Russia...range and pad No 1, site of the launch of the Sputnik 1 and of Gagarin in 1957 and 1961, respectively. US reconnaissance-satellite...

...image shows two Cosmonauts conducting a simulated extra-vehicular activity outside a mock up of the Mir space station in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center's hydrolab in 1986. Sign up to Flight Digital Magazine Flight Print Magazine Airline...

...first flight as a GTO booster. "This is a historic project that we can compare with the launch of the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin in 1961," says Yuri Semenov, general director of Energia. The Zenit 2 was first flown in 1985 as the Soviet Union...

...Olsen. Dice-K’s expedition is currently planned for October 2006 and has already begun cosmonaut training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Dice-K, a 34 year old executive vice president of Japanese IT firm...

...the right political noises supporting space programmes during celebrations on 12 April to mark the 35th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first spaceflight. The strain is telling, however. Koptev hoped to receive $650 million for his space projects this...

...Germany and Sweden for the European Space Agency. The Foton recovery capsule, based on the Vostok capsule flown by Yuri Gagarin in April 1961, is scheduled to return to Earth on 25 September. Sign up to Flight Digital Magazine Flight Print...

...four Soyuz missions between 1975 and 1980. Meanwhile, nine new cosmonaut candidates have been selected to train at the Yuri Gagarin centre at Star City to become eligible for space flights. They are the first new cosmonauts to be selected since 1997. ...

...very beginning. Check the Flight International archive for issues that covered the launch of Sputnik; the flights of Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard; the later Vostock and Mercury missions; the lunar, Martian and Venusian robotic missions; the Apollo...

...explanation. Last week's picture shows two citizens of the Arab Republic of Syria completing a training course at the Yury Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Centre in preparation for the joint Soviet - Syrian space mission. July 1987.. Sign up to Flight...