Instead, Yuri began to refer to the Ilyushin passenger jet that ferried him around the world as “home.” Meanwhile, his less celebrated colleagues got to fly in space. Gherman Titov orbited ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...

Russia has a new space chief. Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Yuri Borisov after 2.5 years in charge of the nation's space agency Roscosmos, The Moscow Times reported today (Feb. 6).