Fifty years ago this month, a young Russian military pilot, standing just 5’2” tall and wearing a comically over-sized helmet that would later become an icon, was strapped into a capsule atop the ...
Fifty years ago on April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, ushering in the era of human spaceflight. The rocket carrying Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft blasted ...
Fifty-five years ago today, the first human ever traveled in space. Russian cosmonaut — the astronaut version for the Russian Space Agency — Yuri Gagarin was only 27 when he made his historic ...
The era of manned spaceflight turns 50 years old Tuesday. On April 12, 1961, the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched into space on the Soviet Vostok-1 rocket, setting a new precedent of ...
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The hidden reentry crisis of Vostok 1, how Yuri Gagarin’s first flight nearly spun out of control
In 1961, Yuri Gagarin made history, but the most dangerous part of Vostok 1 began after the retro burn, when a failure sent the capsule into a terrifying spin and forced a landing the Soviets could ...
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Vostok 1’s hidden reentry crisis, the spinning capsule that nearly killed Yuri Gagarin
In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin made history as the first human in space, but the Soviet Union buried how close Vostok 1 came to disaster during reentry. From a failed valve to a delayed separation and a ...
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