Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union became the first country to put a man in space when Yuri Gagarin completed one orbit of the Earth and returned a hero. Gagarin trained for the flight in the same place that today's cosmonauts prepare for going into space - at Star City, outside of Moscow. See more
Five people who were injured in a fire at a hotel in Star City, an enclosed community housing the Russian space research and cosmonaut training centre outside Moscow, have been hospitalised, Alexander Vorobyov, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), told Interfax. Read more