12 April 2021
60 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space
Sixty years ago today cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, a flight that marked a new chapter in the history of space exploration. A trained steel worker turned military pilot, Gagarin was selected from thousands of candidates to...
July 2014
Why become a cosmonaut? To preserve knowledge
In human spaceflight, the human factor is as important as the technical side. From the very beginning, human spaceflight was made possible not only because of extraordinary scientific breakthroughs, but also because the human spirit was driving the ...
October 2020
Microgravity and its effects on the human brain
... may also deliver benefits to people on Earth with specific injuries or illness. Since the first 90-minute flight by Yuri Gagarin almost 60 years ago routine space missions are getting longer in duration, with flights of up to six months or more...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
...two people preparing for space flight via the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Russia: British singer ... development (for thr 55th Anniversary of the The Yuri Gagarin State Russian Science & Research Experimental Cosmonaut Training Centre...
29 March 2018
The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling
... rocket manufacturer Energia, which pictured them together (smiling of course) with the caption “In the historic 1960s, Yuri Gagarin and Gina Lollobrigida personified peace and love”. We are left, through lack of hard evidence, to make up our...
01 April 2025
Cosmonaut - A Cultural History
One has to ask, more than 60 years after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, why a book called Cosmonaut would interest modern readers, especially one ...
