Discover the fascinating evolution of space tourism in this comprehensive video, from Gherman Titov’s Vostok 2 mission to the ...

The morning sun had already topped the mountains edging the Kazakhstan steppes, deep in southern Russia, when Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, 26, rode to his waiting rocket in an eggshell-blue bus.

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It’s been a bad month for Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov. In 1961, at age 25, he became the second person to orbit the Earth, a feat he performed 17 times before reentry. Since then, over 500 people ...

Don’t let the Monday blues creep in today. Join the Freer and the Sackler Galleries for ExplorAsia instead. Come to galleries 6 and 7 of the Freer at 1:30 to delve into the arts of Japan in Seasons: ...

Yuri Gagarin became a hero to millions of people when he blasted off Earth into space and orbited the planet in 1961. Initially, the man with the lady-killer smile was just one of the nineteen future ...

The Russians this week took a giant new stride in the race toward the moon. From the Soviet rocketdrome in Central Asia, two manned space capsules rose into orbit around the earth and established ...

Titov, the second man to orbit the Earth and a towering hero of the Soviet-American space race, died Wednesday in Moscow of carbon monoxide poisoning in an accident in his spa. He was 65. Titov’s ...