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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 ...
It is situated on the old road between Vyazma and Mozhaysk, not far from Gzhatsk (now named Gagarin), and it was the site of a major battle during the Polish–Russian War of 1609–1618. The village is best known as the birthplace of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, born there in 1934. Gagarin's original house in Klushino was ...
The first eleven Soviet cosmonauts, July 1965. Back row, left to right: Leonov, Titov, Bykovsky, Yegorov, Popovich; front row: Komarov, Gagarin, Tereshkova, Nikolayev, Feoktistov, Belyayev. All were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, worn on the left breast and the Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR decoration, worn on the right.
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 ...
Portal:Spaceflight/Selected biography/3 . Yuri Gagarin. Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the first human to orbit the earth. Yuri Gagarin joined the Soviet Air Force in 1955 and graduated with honors from the Soviet Air Force Academy in 1957.
Valentina Gagarina and her husband astronaut Yuri Gagarin in 1964 . On October 27, 1957, in Orenburg, she married aviator Yuri Gagarin. [10] In their house, a museum-apartment of Yuri and Valentina Gagarin was later opened. The Gagarins had two daughters, Yelena and Galina. On April 12, 1961 her husband was the first in the world to fly into ...
Barskoon is also known as the birthplace of Abu Mansur Sabuktigin. Born there in 942, ... a Soviet lorry mounted on a plinth and a bust of Yuri Gagarin, ...
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]