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Jun 19, 2024 · Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut who on April 12, 1961, became the first man to travel into space. His Vostok 1 spacecraft orbited Earth once in 1 hour 29 minutes at a maximum altitude of 187 miles, bringing Gagarin immediate worldwide fame.
- Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov
Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov was a Soviet and Russian...
- Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyov
Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyov is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew...
- Pavel Popovich
Pavel Popovich (born October 5, 1930, Uzin, Ukraine,...
- Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov
3 days ago · Gagarin fu subito considerato il primo eroe dello spazio e divenne celebre in tutto il globo; ricevette numerosi riconoscimenti e medaglie, tra cui quella di Eroe dell'Unione Sovietica, la più alta onorificenza del suo paese.
Jun 3, 2024 · Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man in space on 12 April 1961. Major Gagarin orbited the Earth for 108 minutes, travelling at more than 17,000 miles per hour...
3 days ago · Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin—the first man in the outer space. The Soviet space program (Russian: Космическая программа СССР, romanized: Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR) was the national space program of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), active from 1955 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union ...
Jun 19, 2024 · Yuri Gagarin was celebrated as the first man to orbit Earth. But he didn't make a complete orbit, almost died due to equipment failures, and ejected too early — landing in a potato...
5 days ago · Vostok 1 was the first spacecraft to carry a human, Yuri A. Gagarin, into space, occurring 25 days prior to the first U.S. suborbital flight.
5 days ago · On April 12, 1961 at 9.07 Moscow time the first in human history, human space flight began. Yuri Gagarin landed near the city of Saratov in 108 minutes. The way to space was open for the mankind. After the flight a new life began for Yuri Gagarin. Now he was not only the commander cosmonaut.
