A look at the Soviet space program from the Soviet point-of-view on the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic flight. Soviet stamp...

Space Will Serve People, Gagarin poster, USSR 1971 -- Daily LIFT #408 Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was born March 9, 1934. A...

"Having rounded the Earth in a satellite spaceship, I have seen how beautiful our planet is. Let us preserve and multiply this beauty,...

The Yuri Gagarin Monument, Moscow USSR 1981 -- Daily LIFT #406

Kaluga is a mid-sized city (pop. approximately 300,000) located about 100 miles southwest of Moscow that is best known for being the...

Che and Yuri Gagarin share a laugh -- Daily LIFT #399 Wonderful photo of Che and Gagarin. It is not dated but is likely from 1964 in...

Yuri Gagarin (left) and M. Keldysh, President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (centre) present the cosmonauts of Voskhod 1 (...

Comrades Yuri Gagarin and Ernesto Che Guevara, Moscow, November 11, 1964 Cuban revolutionary hero Che and Soviet icon Yuri Gagarin, the...