Gagarin First In Space
On april 12 1961 aboard the spacecraft vostok 1 soviet cosmonaut yuri alekseyevich gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space.
Gagarin first in space. His capsule vostok 1 completed one orbit of earth on 12 april 1961. Yuri gagarin was the first person to fly in space. This biopic of russian cosmonaut yuri gagarin follows his rise from childhood poverty to his selection and training for the 1961 vostok mission.
First man in space. The program winnowed the cosmonauts down to two gagarin and fellow test pilot gherman titov as finalists. With yaroslav zhalnin mikhail filippov olga ivanova vadim michman.
On april 12 1961 soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin blasted off in a vostok rocket becoming the first human in space and orbiting earth for 108 minutes. During the flight the 27 year old test pilot and. Yuri alekseyevich gagarin 9 march 1934 27 march 1968 was a soviet air forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space achieving a major milestone in the space race.
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 flight on april 12 1961 lasted 108 minutes as he circled the earth for a little more than one orbit in the soviet union s vostok. Directed by pavel parkhomenko.
He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the soviet union. On april 12 1961 soviet cosmonaut gagarin blasted off in a vostok rocket and he orbited earth for 108 minutes. April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission.
He was one of the legendary top twenty men selected for a mission wrought with danger and whose bravery knew no bounds in his quest to become the first man in space. On april 12 1961 soviet fighter pilot and cosmonaut yuri gagarin blasted off into space not knowing what fate awaited him.