MOSCOW, Russia — Crushed into the pilot's seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin saw flames outside his spacecraft and prepared to die. His voice broke the tense silence at ground ...
Whipping themselves into a Freedom Fries-esque fit of censoriousness, a space industry conference has removed the name of celebrated Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space ...
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Yuri Gagarin’s secret reentry crisis, the near-disaster the Soviet Union hid for a decade
Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight was far more dangerous than the world was told, with a failed engine shutdown, uncontrolled spinning, and a landing that violated official spaceflight rules. This is the ...
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Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok 1 reentry nearly spun out of control, and the Soviets hid what really happened
In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, but the most dangerous part came during reentry, when a fuel leak and a delayed separation sent Vostok 1 into a violent spin. Years later, ...
MOSCOW, Russia — Crushed into the pilot's seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin saw flames outside his spacecraft and prepared to die. His voice broke the tense silence at ground ...
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