If there’s ever a clearer illustration of the critics against Theodore Roosevelt’s “man in the arena,” it’s Soviet space pioneer Yuri Gagarin and the naysayers who believe he wasn’t ...

Experts have struggled to explain how a pilot as proficient as Yuri Gagarin could have perished in an airplane crash. The official 1968 investigation was inconclusive. Over the years, theories and ...

Gagarin’s first space flight in 1961 may not have been that long but it has had a lasting impact. According to French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy, it opened a new era of space exploration.

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), a Soviet Air Force lieutenant, was chosen to be the first human to travel into outer space. His spacecraft launched and landed on April 12, 1961, in an extremely risky ...