Yuri Gagarin

Kristiāna Buda, Monika Kartele

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 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born on 9
March 1934 in the village of Klushino near
Gzhatsk (now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia)
Anna Timofeyevna and Alexei Ivanovich
Gagarin family. He was the first human to
travel into space.
At 9:06 am on 12 April 1961 Vostok 1 lifted
off with Gagarin on board, and nine minutes
later he became the first human to travel into
space.
 Facts

Two days before his flight, Yuri Gagarin

wrote a letter to his wife in case of an
accident. Gagarin's wife, Valentina,
received this letter seven years later
when her husband died in a plane
crash in 1968

Gagarin was one of 20 pilots chosen

for the initial Soviet space programme
Since 12 April 1961, the anniversary of
Gagarin’s first flight has been celebrated in
Russia as a holiday known as Cosmonautics
Day
In total, Gagarin’s flight lasted 108 minutes.
 Queen Elizabeth II took a picture with him.
She explained her decision by saying that
Gagarin was not an ordinary person, but a
man from space.