On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

A new winter complex has been put into operation at the Vostok station in Central Antarctica (...) The new polar house will be used for the first time by the participants of the 70th Russian ...

Without Vostok, the rocket technology used now to transport astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) might not exist. But the Soviet’s space victory was short lived – American ...

In 2024, the Hydrometeorological Service held the VIII All-Russian Joint Meteorological and Hydrological ... and the creation of a new wintering complex at the Vostok station in Antarctica has been ...

The Vostok spacecraft weighed over 10,000 pounds ... and send Americans to the Russian space station Mir. This was followed by phase two, the construction of the International Space Station.

From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air Forces before ... orbiting the globe once in his craft, Vostok 1. Officially, he came ...

The one place that always comes up when extreme cold is discussed is Vostok Station in Antarctica. This Russian research outpost holds the record for the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth ...