"The flight made by you opens up a new page in the history of mankind in its conquest of space." BBC Archive: Originally broadcast on 12 April 1961. 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), a Soviet Air Force lieutenant, was chosen to be the first human to travel into outer space. His spacecraft ... of 34 during a training flight for a military airplane ...

NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our ...

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The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history ... went on to walk on the moon – into space weeks later on 5 May, and then only on a short sub-orbital flight. But the gauntlet was picked ...

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More animals would follow, and just three years later, in April of 1961, so would Yuri Gagarin ... space travel companion, Able, a rhesus monkey, in the run-up to their 16-minute space flight ...

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Yuri Gagarin spent eight days in Norway in March 1964. The Scandinavian kingdom was the 39th country the cosmonaut visited on his triumphant global tour after his historic space flight.

Epic journey: Yuri Gagarin, first man in space Then another figure ... Gagarin, who would have had to make the flight had Komarov backed out, was spared that grisly fate. (A new book ‘Starman: The ...

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Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man in space on 12 April 1961 ... saying: "The flight made by you opens up a new page in the history of mankind in its conquest ...