Dr. Bernard Harris became the first Black man to do a space walk. His family watched nervously seeing him take off into space ...

More than 60 years on from the man's first flight into space, rumors about accidents that allegedly preceded Yuri Gagarin's mission are still abound.

In Photos: Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space Related: 25 Space Conspiracies That Just Won't Die And yet, before he even embarked on his journey skywards, doubt was seeded in many a person's mind.

Then, in 1961, 27-year-old cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, beating NASA's Alan Shepard by three critical weeks. Here, a celebration of a Russian genuine trailblazer.

'First Man' is a movie steeped in even more space history than audiences might be aware. Here's a look at the hidden details, or "easter eggs," that maybe only eagle-eyed space geeks might notice.

STAR CITY, Russia — It was the Soviet Union’s own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago this Tuesday, when an air ...

Today I found out that the first man to walk in space almost got stuck out there. That lucky individual was Alexei Leonov, who was born in the Soviet Union on May 30, 1934. He was one of the ...

He’s the man we should send into space first,” he told them. It also helped that Gagarin was, at 157 centimetres, quite short. Korolev’s Vostok 1 space capsule was very cramped.