After Yuri Gagarin landed back on Earth on April 12, 1961, he was celebrated as a national hero in the Soviet Union. He toured various countries, promoting the achievements of the Soviet space program, and participated in numerous public events. Gagarin continued to work in the space program, training for future missions, and he also served as a deputy in the Supreme Soviet. Tragically, he died in a plane crash in 1968 at the age of 34.
Yuri Gagarin, from Russia.
The Soviets, Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit the earth.
No human being has ever flown into Orbit before Yuri did. The soviets only flew their sattelites and put them into Earth's orbit. So we can indicate that: Yuri Gagarin is the first human being sent into Space :)
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Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet Air Force Colonel and a former pilot. He is most famously know for being the first man to orbit the Earth. He made one orbit and was in space for close to two hours.
Yuri Gagarin was launched from Russia, and landed 1hour 48minutes later, after one orbital trip around the earth, also in Russia.
Yuri gagarin
Yuri Gagarin made his one and only space flight in April of 1961. He was launched, made a little less than one complete orbit of the Earth, landed about an hour and a half after launch, and never left Earth's atmosphere again after that.
Yuri Gagarin was the 1st man in space. he went round the earth and it took 1hr and48 mins
Gagarin was the first person to leave the Earth's atmosphere.
Yuri Gagarin of the USSR
Yuri Gagarin hardly ever left the earth. On April 12, 1961, he was launched from Tyuratam in the USSR, reached a peak altitude of about 203 miles above the surface, made almost (but not quite) one complete orbit of the earth, and landed 1hour 48minutes later.
Yuri Gagarin was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, USSR on April 12, 1961. He made almost but not quite one complete orbit of the earth, and landed 108 minutes after launch. He never went to space again, and was killed in March 1968 in the crash of a MiG 15 training jet.
On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the first man to travel into space
When Yuri Gagarin launched from Kazakhstan, he was 27years 1month plus somedays and hours old.When he re-entered Earth's atmosphere, returned from space, and landed, he was1hour 48minutes older than that, and was never involved in another space mission.
No. Yuri gagarin was a Soviet.
Yuri Alexeyevich 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.