World news about “Yuri Gagarin” published by euronews.
50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight into spaceA man passes in front of a portrait of Yuri Gagarin during a ceremonial reception, dedicated to the upcoming Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics and the 50th… 12/04/2011
Gagarin through the eyes of those who knew him This week 50 years ago, for the first time in human history, a man left the Earth and travelled in space. Who was Yuri Gagarin, how did that flight change his… 06/04/2011
Gagarin in his daughter’s wordsSix years after his space flight, Yuri Gagarin was killed in a plane crash during a training flight. His eldest daughter Elena is now the director general of… 12/04/2011
Gagarin, boldly going where no man had gone beforeIn 1961, for the first time, a man left earth and travelled into space. Yuri Gagarin was born in 1934 to a peasant family in western Russia. He became… 12/04/2011
AnniversarySix years after his space flight, Yuri Gagarin was killed in a plane crash during a training flight. His eldest daughter Elena is now the director general of… 11/04/2011
Russia celebrates years of man in spaceRussians have begun a series of celebrations to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first ever manned space flight. Officials in Moscow invited… 10/04/2011
Lift-off, 50 years after Gagarin’s first space tripHalf a century after the first manned flight into space, a Soyuz rocket has blasted off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on a mission to the orbiting International… 05/04/2011
Soyuz prepares for ISS space flightA Russian Soyuz-21 spacecraft is going through final pre-flight checks at the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. The crew, which includes an American, is… 04/04/2011
