Having survived the immediate post-war threat to its existence, Britain’s ruling class clearly worried that Yuri Gagarin’s visit might reignite dormant pro-Soviet and pro-socialist feelings. On the ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), a Soviet Air Force lieutenant, was chosen to be the first human to travel into outer space. His spacecraft launched and landed on April 12, 1961, in an extremely risky ...