Yuri Gagarin

The Cosmonaut's Wife by sovietspacechild "Andromeda on the choir-like hummmmmm on every downbeat, the Serge is moaning and percolating in the lower register. Everything else is drenched in RE-501."  M-Tron Pro for piano and SonicCouture Music Boxes for glockenspiel. Pictured: Comsmonaut Yuri Gagarin and his wife Valentina.  

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 31, 2012 Russia's state space agency Roscosmos has launched a cosmonaut selection competition, Roscosmos said on its web site on Friday. Candidates should apply with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. A lucky few will be selected for cosmonaut training by a commission made up of representatives of the training center, rocket and space corporation Energia and the Institute of Biomedical Pro  

Mumbai (UPI) Dec 30, 2011 A statue of the world's first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was unveiled Friday in Mumbai on the grounds of the Nehru Science Center, center officials said. Dignitaries attending the unveiling ceremony Friday included Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin, Russian General Consul in Mumbai Alexei Novikov and Mumbai Mayor Shraddha Jadhav. "Gagarin is a man who is known and loved  

The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre last year held a recruitment test for potential cosmonauts. Gagarin was a Soviet Air Force pilot. He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the ...  

One of the last surviving architects of the Soviet space programme that put Yuri Gagarin into orbit half a century ago, has died aged 99, officials said. Boris Chertok, who helped design the country’s first ballistic missiles, was a close colleague of ...  

The winter exhibition for Liverpool's FACT gallery, Republic of the Moon, is an intriguing celebration of the 50 year anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first space flight. But rather than looking back, the gallery asks a number of contemporary artists to offer ...  

MOSCOW — One of the last surviving architects of the Soviet space programme that put Yuri Gagarin into orbit half a century ago died on Wednesday, officials said. He was 99. Boris Chertok, who helped design the country's first ballistic missiles ...