Spacewatch: 60 years after Gagarin, first ‘all-civilian’ mission is in works
Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first human went into space – video
October 2019
Alexei Leonov obituary
Russian cosmonaut who was the first person to walk in space
December 2018
Earthrise: the story behind our planet's most famous photo
When Bill Anders took this photograph from the Apollo spacecraft on Christmas Eve in 1968, our relationship with the world changed forever
April 2018
Belgrade Yuri Gagarin monument shrinks away after head jibes
Stream of sarcasm and parodies about scale of bust to plinth leads to it being dismantled
July 2017
From the Guardian archive
Retiring cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin visits London – archive, 1961
14 July 1961: Prime minister Harold Macmillan attended a reception for the man hailed ‘Columbus of the space age’
April 2016
Eyewitness
Eyewitness: Moscow, Russia
Space travel: cosmic train launches in Moscow as Yuri Gagarin tribute
November 2015
Helen Sharman, first Briton in space, offers glimpse of life awaiting her successor, Tim Peake
As Tim Peake prepares for a six-month stay on the space station, Helen Sharman, Britain’s first astronaut, talks about the experience that awaits him
September 2015
New East network
How space exploration replaced religion in the USSR
As the Science Museum in London explores the birth of the space age, The Calvert Journal looks back at the Soviet Union’s cult-like love of all things cosmic
April 2015
Notes & Theories
How JFK and the Cold War space race inspired an album
Interview: Public Service Broadcasting’s frontman J. Willgoose Esq explores the history behind the band’s Cold War era-inspired album The Race For Space
September 2014
Darwin’s Day to Yuri’s Night: some science dates to remember
Festive science dates from Darwin’s Day to Yuri’s Night
November 2013
Space exhibition leads huge joint festival of Russian and British culture
Cultural envoys hope tense diplomatic relations will be eased by James Bond, Yuri Gagarin, Shakespeare and Stravinsky
October 2012
Yuri Gagarin statue to take up residence at Royal Observatory
Russian astronaut's statue was unveiled last year on the Mall, where it had temporary planning permission
July 2011
Our bouquet for Yuri Gagarin
Letters: Then Yuri Gagarin was brought out to meet us – somebody translated our greetings, we presented the flowers, shook his hand and we were photographed together
Constructive criticism
Constructive criticism: the week in architecture
Jonathan Glancey: Yuri Gagarin touches down in Britain, the Gherkin paternity battle finally ends, and typhoons strike Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House
Yuri Gagarin statue unveiled in London
Figure of the Russian astronaut – the first man to journey into outer space – uncovered by his daughter Elena Gagarina
May 2011
Guardian 190
14 April 1961: Yuri Gagarin comes back down to earth
Space hero:Soviet cosmonaut tries to describe what it was like in space
