First Man In Space

In the late 1950s and early 1960s the two superpowers raced to become the first country to put a man in space and return him to earth.
First man in space. Yuri gagarin in full yuri alekseyevich gagarin born march 9 1934 near gzhatsk russia u s s r. Drunks double agents and ufos. His capsule vostok 1 completed one orbit of earth on 12 april 1961. Navy test pilot lieut.
On april 12 1961 the soviet space program won the race when. Yuri alekseyevich gagarin 9 march 1934 27 march 1968 was a soviet air forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space achieving a major milestone in the space race. 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. Unable to turn he ejects and is plastered with metallic meteor dust.
Few people know it but the first man in space wasn t an astronaut. The report can t pin down a reason. Yuri gagarin was the first person to fly in space. A national hero dies under mysterious circumstances.
On april 12 1961 soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin became the first person in space and the first to orbit the earth. Dan prescott in experimental rocket plane y 13 disobeys orders and becomes the first man to fly outside the ionosphere. When shepard heard the news he slammed his fist down on a table so hard a nasa public relations officer feared he might have broken his hand. There are things we know conclusively about yuri gagarin s final moments.
It was test pilot joe kittinger. His flight on april 12 1961 lasted 108 minutes as he circled the earth for a little more than one orbit in the soviet union s vostok. The mysterious death of the first man in space in a flash. It was another body blow to american pride.
He awoke early on. On that day in 1961 russian cosmonaut yuri gagarin left on the way to the launch pad became the first human in space making a 108 minute orbital flight in his vostok 1 spacecraft.