Gagarin
The Crown Jewels of the Soviet Space Age
A look at 150 of Russia's never-seen-been-before spacecraft and space-related artifacts.
There Was No Escape from the Sketchiest, Most Cramped Soviet Spaceflight
The Soviet Voskhod spacecraft was a hollowed out Vostok with almost no safety provisions. And it worked.
Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov Screamed Until He Hit the Earth
In 1967, the first Soyuz smashed full speed into the ground. And everyone knew it was going to happen.
This Was the First Man in Space—and Then He Jumped: A Q+A With Joe Kittinger
_Before he would end up in a Vietnamese prison camp, Joe Kittinger ascended 20 miles above the Earth by balloon, a year before the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, "would get to space":http://motherboard.tv/2011/4/12/first-orbit-the-mind-expanding...
"First Orbit": The Mind-Expanding, Astronaut-Shot, Real-Time Film of What the Earth Looked Like to First Space Man Yuri Gagarin (Video)
With direction from documentary film maker Christopher Riley, astronaut Paolo Nespoli carefully matched the orbital path of the International Space Station as closely as possible to that of Yuri Gagarin's first manned orbit around the Earth. Using HD...
