"The flight made by you opens up a new page in the history of mankind in its conquest of space." BBC Archive: Originally broadcast on 12 April 1961. 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.

When Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in his spacecraft, Vostok 1, he was one of the most famous people on earth.

NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history ... went on to walk on the moon – into space weeks later on 5 May, and then only on a short sub-orbital flight. But the gauntlet was picked ...

At age 27 on the morning of 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was helped into his spacesuit and made his way to the launch pad. He climbed into the Vostok spacecraft, wondering if he would return ...

However, the Soviets beat the Americans once again, sending Yuri Gagarin into space on April 12. Three weeks later, on May 5, Shepard lifted off for a 15-minute suborbital flight. Shepard's ...

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), a Soviet Air Force lieutenant, was chosen to be the first human to travel into outer space. His spacecraft ... of 34 during a training flight for a military airplane ...

Yuri Gagarin spent eight days in Norway in March 1964. The Scandinavian kingdom was the 39th country the cosmonaut visited on his triumphant global tour after his historic space flight.

Aged 25, Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, lasting 34 hours. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space when he ...

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NASA astronaut Flight Surgeon Thomas ... up during training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia. Photograph courtesy Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre and GCTC Discover more ...

Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man in space on 12 April 1961 ... saying: "The flight made by you opens up a new page in the history of mankind in its conquest ...