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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin [a] [b] (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person 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.
An analysis of the cabin's clock and Gagarin's hand proved that the disaster happened at 10:31, around a minute after Gagarin's last contact. [ 22 ] The conclusion of the committee was the following: due to the changes in the air environment during the flight (the details were not specified) the crew made an abrupt maneuver resulting in a spin.
Vostok 1 (Russian: Восток, lit. ' East ' or ' Orient ') was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 12 April 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to reach orbital velocity around the Earth and to complete a full orbit ...
Expedition 52 flight engineer Randy Bresnik saluting at the site of Gagarin's burial, 2017. The funeral was covered in The New York Times [7] and some other foreign publications. In 1968, Maltese writer and linguist Joseph Aquilina published the English-language poem "On the Funeral of Maj. Yuri Gagarin and Col. Vladimir Seryogin". [8]
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Gagarin: First in Space a.k.a.. First man In Space ( Russian : Гагарин. Первый в космосе ) is a 2013 Russian docudrama biopic about the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin , and the 1961 mission of Vostok 1 .
Selected Biography: From 8th April 2006 until 2 July 2007. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), was a Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human to travel into space, as well as orbit the Earth.
Yuri's Night, also known as "World Space Party" is an international observance initiated in the United States in 2001, on the 40th anniversary of Gagarin's flight. Also commemorated on this date is the first Space Shuttle launch, STS-1 of Columbia on 12 April 1981, exactly 20 years after the first human spaceflight.