On April 12, 1961, Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth aboard Vostok 1. The mission lasted ...
Click to open image viewer. A child's toy, a model of a spacecraft, would not seem to be significant in the history of aerospace technology. However, this model marks a milestone in the road to ...
On this day in 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova became the first woman to travel in space, having been launched into orbit aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6, which completed 48 orbits in 71 ...