As Russia Celebrates Gagarin’s Flight, Space Program Comes Under Fire

MOSCOW — The celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Yury Gagarin’s historic orbiting of the Earth should be a triumphant occasion for Anatoly Perminov, the head of Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos). Instead, they could turn out to be his swan song. Less than a week before the anniversary, a Soyuz TMA-21 piloted spacecraft dubbed […]