Related: Yuri Gagarin, first man in space (photo gallery ... to escape the biosphere and look at it from the outside. So I saw and met and interviewed a lot more people, and I delved into a ...

[Photos: Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space] For the anniversary ... "I thought, 'Hey, do you think we could film what Yuri saw by matching the flight path of the space station to Vostok 1?'" ...

However, I was always somewhat disappointed that the first person in space [Gagarin] didn't film ... meaning that what he saw were] dark conditions over the Pacific Ocean. So we had to use shots ...

Yuri Gagarin is celebrated as the first human in space - but history written during the Cold War may not tell the full story.

In case you weren't aware, today is the 60th anniversary of humans first leaving the Earth ... of the uneven way progress works — a man returns from space right into a farming scene that could ...

Ogden would later claim that he saw a photograph of Ilyushin wearing ... also helmed "Vladimir Ilyushin: The Real First Man in Space". Widely broadcast, it claimed Ilyushin had failed to eject ...

Alexei Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk, died this week. He was 85. Russian space agency Roscosmos Space Corporation announced his passing Friday. State news agency RIA-Novosti ...

And the footage the space company managed to capture of the event is mesmerizing. One camera angle — Isaacman's first-person view — is particularly entrancing, showing him undoing the ...