At the time of Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight in 1961, the USSR was officially atheist. Referring to
Gagarin's flight in a speech some time later, Khruschev said that Gagarin " ... didn't see any
god up there". If Gagarin's personal convictions differed from the USSR's official policy, he kept
them to himself. Gagarin has been dead now for over 40 years.
He was a Russian cosmonaut and the first man into space in April 1961
Yuri Gagarin's father's name was Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin. He was a carpenter and a farmer. Gagarin's family lived in a small village in Russia, where Yuri was born in 1934.
Yuri Gagarin had blue eyes.
Yuri Gagarin launched on a Soyuz spaceship
Yes, Yuri Gagarin was often called the "Columbus of the Cosmos" or "Gagarin the Great" due to being the first human to journey into outer space.
No. Yuri gagarin was a Soviet.
Yuri Gagarin's birth name is Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin is no longer alive.
Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934.
He was a Russian cosmonaut and the first man into space in April 1961
Yuri Gagarin's father's name was Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin. He was a carpenter and a farmer. Gagarin's family lived in a small village in Russia, where Yuri was born in 1934.
Yuri Gagarin was launched from the U.S.S.R. in the Sputnik.
Yuri Gagarin had blue eyes.
Yuri Gagarin launched on a Soyuz spaceship
Yes, Yuri Gagarin was often called the "Columbus of the Cosmos" or "Gagarin the Great" due to being the first human to journey into outer space.
Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin and Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina
Yuri Gagarin was from Russia