Yuri Gagarin Summary

Gagarin, Yuri Russian Cosmonaut; First Human in Space 1934-1968 On April 12, 1961, at age twenty-seven, Yuri Gagarin, of the Soviet Union, became the first human in space. He completed one orbit of Ea... Read more

Gagarin, Yuri A. (1934-1968) Russian cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin was the first human in space. In 1961, the boyish-looking Soviet cosmonaut captured the attention of the world with his short flight arou... Read more

Yury Gagarin Born March 9, 1934, Klushino, Russia Died March 27, 1968, Near Moscow, Russia Yury Alekseyevich Gagarin’s successful orbit of Earth was a technical triumph for the Soviet Union th... Read more

The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alexeivich Gagarin (1934-1968) was the first man to orbit the earth in an artificial satellite and thus ushered in the age of manned spaceflight.Yuri Gagarin, the third chil... Read more

April 12, 1961 will never be forgotten. On that day Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was launched into space. He circled the globe in the spaceship "Vostok" for 108 minutes. Gagarin was taking an enormous ris... Read more