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In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, but the full story of his return to Earth was quietly rewritten by Soviet officials. Decades later, declassified details revealed how close the ...

Whipping themselves into a Freedom Fries-esque fit of censoriousness, a space industry conference has removed the name of celebrated Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space ...

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 ...

The Space Foundation removed Yuri Gagarin’s name from an upcoming fundraising event after it received derogatory and anti-Russia comments on its social media accounts. The organization did not revoke ...

Queen Elizabeth II was stroked on the leg by the first human to travel to space in a breach of royal protocol, according to a biography. The Monarch, now 96, met Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin for ...

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to venture into space on April 12, 1961. What Happened: Gagarin achieved many firsts on that day — including becoming the first person to orbit the ...

The Space Foundation – an internationally-known space advocacy nonprofit based in Colorado Springs – found itself at the center of a social media firestorm after news spread online that it had renamed ...

When Yuri Gagarin flew around the Earth in 1961, there was no video recording of what he saw — we only have an audio recording of his astonished observations. But now, for the first time, the crew of ...

Russian military attacks in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv have left an enormous crater in a stadium that was once named after one of Russia's most famous people from history—Yuri Gagarin, the first ...