Russian President Medvedev visits Yuri Gagarin's museum
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits Yuri Gagarin's museum in the town of Gagarin on July 31, 2008. The town of Gagarin is named after famed Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who piloted the first space flight in 1961. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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A statue of the world's first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was unveiled Friday in Mumbai on the grounds of the Nehru Science Center, center officials said.
Boris Chertok, a rocket designer and a key figure in the Soviet-era space program who helped build Sputnik, died of pneumonia, officials said. He was 99.
Russians on the International Space Station will launch a mini-satellite to honor this year's 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight, mission control said.
Russia Tuesday honored some of its most senior cosmonauts in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight as the first man in space.
