Here's a look at some others who found themselves stuck in space — by choice or not — along with some cool spaceflight ...

YURI GAGARIN, the first human to travel into outer space, was born on March 9 1934, so let’s celebrate his birthday by remembering the time he embarrassed a British Tory government simply by being ...

She spent more than 70 hours orbiting the Earth, two years after Yuri Gagarin’s first human-crewed flight in space. Her spaceflight was broadcast on television and watched by citizens in the ...

Weren’t space missions meant to get easier with ... Despite nearly 64 years since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s first spaceflight in April 1961, human missions remain challenging.

Of that total, 102 are women. The first person in space was the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961.

The custom of flying zero-g indicators began in the former Soviet Union with the launch of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, in 1961. The tradition migrated to the United States ...