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  3. Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1

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  4. Yuri Gagarin: Story of the First Man in Space

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  1. Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 - 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space.Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight taking 108 minutes. By achieving this major milestone for the Soviet Union amidst the Space Race, he ...

  2. Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin (born March 9, 1934, near Gzhatsk, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now Gagarin, Russia]—died March 27, 1968, near Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first man to travel into space. The son of a carpenter on a collective farm, Gagarin graduated as a molder from a trade school near Moscow in 1951.

  3. Yuri Gagarin and Vostok 1, the First Human Spaceflight

    Why Yuri Gagarin's Flight Happened. No nation had ever flown a human into space until the Soviet Union did it on 12 April 1961. Yuri Gagarin's one-orbit flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft ushered in a new era of spaceflight and scored a key victory for the Soviets, who were locked in a struggle for technological and ideological supremacy with the United States.

  4. Yuri Gagarin: Facts about the first human in space

    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human in space. In 1961, he orbited Earth aboard the Vostok 1 space capsule, the first-ever crewed spacecraft.

  5. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space

    On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and ...

  6. How Yuri Gagarin Was Picked to Be First in Space

    April 9, 2021. Yuri Gagarin before his epic spaceflight on April 12, 1961. Sixty years ago, early on the morning of April 12, 1961, Soviet air force pilot Yuri Gagarin launched from Kazakhstan on ...

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    Flight to space. In April 1961, Gagarin became the first human to travel into space, launching to orbit aboard the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1). After the flight, he became a global celebrity, touring widely to promote the Soviet achievement. In 1962, he began serving as a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

  8. First in Space: New Yuri Gagarin Biography Shares Hidden Side of

    It's been 60 years, to the day, since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel to space in a tiny capsule attached to an R-7 ballistic missile, a powerful rocket originally ...

  9. Yuri Gagarin: First Human in Space

    Yuri Gagarin: First Human in Space. On April 12, 1961, the era of human spaceflight began when the Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in his Vostock I spacecraft. The flight lasted 108 minutes. Front page of the Huntsville, Ala., Times on April 12, 1961.

  10. Yuri Gagarin: Who was the first person in space?

    On April 12, 1961, Vostok 1 lifted Yuri Gagarin into space, making him the first human being to travel there. His orbit lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes in what was a very dangerous mission. During ...

  11. Yuri Gagarin

    The First To Space And To Orbit Earth. Yuri Gagarin was born on the 9th of March 1934 near Gzhatsk in the former Soviet Union. Yuri became the first human to reach space and orbit the Earth in the Vostok spacecraft on 12th April 1961, achieving an important milestone before the United States during the Space Race!Gagarin and his co-pilot would tragically die in 1968 when their MiG-15 crashed.

  12. 5 Changes in Space Travel Since Yuri Gagarin's Flight

    Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, completed a circuit of the Earth in the spaceship Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. Photograph from Getty Images 5 Changes in Space Travel Since ...

  13. Yuri Gagarin: The first man in space

    So it was that on April 12, 1961, Vostok 1 lifted Yuri Gagarin into space, the first human being to travel there. His orbit, which lasted for an hour and 48 minutes, had a few unsettling moments ...

  14. The Vostok Program: The Soviet's first crewed spaceflight program

    On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space, launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1). (Image credit: ESA/alldayru.com) Vostok 2 and Gherman Titov

  15. What Really Happened to Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space?

    At 9:07 a.m. on April 12, 1961, when Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft lifted off from Baikonur cosmodrome, he uttered the surprisingly informal, immediately iconic exclamation "Poyekhali ...

  16. Yuri Gagarin

    As the first man ever, Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth 60 years ago. On April 12, 1961 his flight marked the beginning of the race for space between East and West.

  17. A communist in space

    Aboard was Yuri Gagarin, a 27-year-old Soviet Air Force pilot and cosmonaut. At 6:07 am on April 12, 1961, a rocket blasted into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist ...

  18. Yuri Gagarin: First Human Space Flight in Pictures

    Yuri Gagarin: First Human Space Flight in Pictures. On the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first orbit, see pictures of the man, his spacecraft, and the global impact of his flight.

  19. April 12 marks 60 years since Gagarin's spaceflight, 40 years since

    Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin before launch April 12, 1961. Credit: Roscosmos. Sixty years ago Monday, a 27-year-old Russian test pilot named Yuri Gagarin strapped into a Vostok capsule in Central Asia ...

  20. Yuri Gagarin First Man in Space

    We rarely talk about Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's other major milestone. On April 12, 1961, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to safely reach space and orbit Earth ...

  21. Yuri A. Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin was one of twenty fighter pilots chosen to be a part of the first group of cosmonauts in 1960. All underwent intense medical examination and preparation for space travel. Gagarin became the first human to enter outer space on April 12, 1961, and was proclaimed the "Columbus of the Cosmos" by the Soviets.

  22. Yuri Gagarin

    On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space when he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1). Get the Space.com Newsletter

  23. Technology after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin entered space 62 years ago

    He would become a star after the launch of the Vostok space capsule on April 12, 1961. Gagarin's physique was perfect for the risky mission - the cosmonaut flying the Vostok could not weight ...

  24. Yuri Gagarin

    On 12 April 1961, aboard the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1), Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin became both the first human to travel into space, and also the first to orbit the earth. Youth and Education. Gagarin was born on 9 March 1934 in the village of Kluschino near Gschatsk as the son of a Russian peasant family. His father Alexei Ivanovich Gagarin (1902 ...

  25. He made history as the first human in space. His shocking death ...

    On this date, April 12, in 1961, Yuri Gagarin rocketed into space and history as the first human to orbit our planet. Yet more than 60 years later, his subsequent death remains something of a mystery.

  26. International Day of Human Space Flight 2024: History, theme ...

    International Day of Human Space Flight 2024: History On October 4, 1957, a human-made satellite named, Sputnik I, was sent to space. This was the first ever human effort to explore space. After understanding space and enhancing the technologies, on April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union became the first human to travel around the earth in space.

  27. Yuri Gagarin's travels on Earth

    Yuri Gagarin watching the air parade, air base near Cairo, Egypt, 1962, in Wikimedia Commons. ... The Soviet cosmonaut became the first man to travel into space, a historic event that marked the beginning of the space age for all mankind. Gagarin spent 108 minutes in space, orbiting the Earth and successfully landing by parachute in the village ...

  28. On this day in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first

    154 likes, 3 comments - ngccoinsApril 12, 2024 on : "On this day in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to outer space. Gagarin is honored with a 42.5-meter ..." On this day in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to outer space.

  29. What's the cheapest way to the edge of space? Ride a balloon

    The first human to experience what's now known as the "overview effect" was Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin, who became the first person to view our planet from space a little over 63 years ago.