Yuri Space

Along for the ride is yuri a little cosmonaut knitted.

Yuri space. Yuri s night parties are held every year in april in commemoration of yuri gagarin s flight on april 12 1961 and the first space shuttle launch on april 12 1981. This is the second spaceflight for rubins and ryzhikov and the first for kud sverchkov and they will spend six months on the space station. Yuri s night started in 2001 as an international celebration of the past present and future of human spaceflight. 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.

His capsule vostok 1 completed one orbit of earth on 12 april 1961. He was a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight a theoretician and a visionary who in the early 20th century developed the first known lunar orbit rendezvous lor a key concept for landing and return spaceflight from earth to the moon. The lor was later used for the plotting of the first actual human spaceflight to the moon. Nasa gov brings you the latest images videos and news from america s space agency.

Missions start at 10 000 learn more about our service. First man in space april 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. Cosmonaut yuri gagarin was the first human to travel to space. Get the latest updates on nasa missions watch nasa tv live and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.

In another notable swipe on twitter suraev apologized to soviet hero yuri gagarin the first human to go into space while sharing a short video of nasa testing the solid rocket booster for its.