50 years of humans in space

Yuri Gagarin: first man in space

Yuri Gagarin The flight of Vostok 1 Timeline of early spaceflights Gagarin's traditions Sergei Korolev: Father of the Soviet Union’s success in space

Women in space

First woman in space: Valentina Mercury 13 NASA: the Space Shuttle era Today’s women in space European women in space Timeline

50 years of human spaceflight

I see Earth - it is so beautiful What is Gagarin’s legacy? Fifty years on On the trail of Gagarin ‘I met Yuri Gagarin in space’

Tributes from European space explorers

Vladimír Remek Dr Helen Sharman Ulf Merbold Michel Tognini Claude Nicollier Dumitru Dorin Prunariu Reinhold Ewald Pedro Duque Frank De Winne Christer Fuglesang

Events in Europe

Austria Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Italy Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden United Kingdom