Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin may have been the first human ... The conspiracy that the moon landing was faked in also prevalent in the United States, though to a lesser degree.

See just how close the first Moon landing came to complete disaster ... the Soviet Union had put the first man in orbit. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s flight was a propaganda coup for his communist ...

"I believe that [Apollo program director George Low] certainly was concerned, and rightly so, that we could have orbited the moon ahead of ... the punch first off. Yuri Gagarin, the first human ...

The race to get the first person into space was eventually won by the USSR, when Yuri Gagarin became ... the USA should commit itself to landing a man on the moon before 1970.