January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
... employed in space missions to date. The authors dedicate this article to friends and teammates from the Yuri Gagarin Research Cosmonaut Training Center in celebration of the 60th anniversary of its foundation and the 60th anniversary of the...
10 March 2021
Russia and China agree to build joint international lunar base
... the nation will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its first-ever manned space flight in April 1961 by Yuri Gagarin. This feat was followed two years later when Valentina Tereshkova became the first and youngest...
26 February 2018
Why do we go into space?
... the question of what life will look like 250 years after the famous flight of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961. This flight, which was part of a Cold War “space race” between two governments, culminated with...
29 April 2021
China launches first section of its massive space station
Sixty years after Yuri Gagarin undertook mankind's first space journey, China launched the core capsule of its space station on Thursday morning, ...
