International Day of Human Space Flight The world’s first astronaut was a 27-year-old Soviet aviator named Yury Gagarin. On April 12, 1961, the 4.75-ton spacecraft Vostok 1 was launched from a location in Baikonur, a wasteland
These Kentucky librarians are out of this world A simple yet engaging micro site for tablets puts the cosmos literally at the fingertips of students at one Kentucky school.