Yuri Gagarin was a cosmonaut for the Soviet Union. On April 12, 1961, he became the first human being to travel into space. His spacecraft was called "Vostok I" and it completed a single orbit of the earth in 1 hour and 48 minutes. Gagarin was born in Klushino, Russia on May 9, 1934. He died March 27, 1968, while flying with another pilot in a Mig-15 aircraft near Kirzhach, in western Russia.
Yuri Gagarin was a USSR cosmonaut (astronaut) and the first human in space. Read more at the Related Link below.
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