Voyager 1: It was a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar ...

It was not until April 1965 that the true form of the spacecraft was revealed, at the Economic Exhibition in Moscow. Vostok comprised two main parts: a spherical cabin section, 2.5 metres in ...

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 ...

Bykovsky first flew aboard a Vostok 5 spacecraft in June 1963 and would go on to take part in two more USSR missions. His record-setting solo flight saw him spend five days in space aboard the ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space ... once in his craft, Vostok 1. Officially, he came back to Earth in his capsule. Though it subsequently ...

The Gagarin Start is the oldest launch pad at the Baikonur spaceport, from which a Vostok spacecraft with the world’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board blasted off into outer space NUR ...

While the Omega Speedmaster Professional made history as the first watch to land on the moon a Russian timepiece took an earlier giant leap-becoming the first watch in space This historic event unfold ...