replaced 50 years of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin
exactly 50 years ago today, on April 12, 1961, the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 1
off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome into space. On board, a single passenger (not crew as the ship was automated):
Yuri Gagarin Alekseyevich , 27 who, upon reaching a 315 km orbit height became the first human to reach space. The trip was brief, one hour and forty-eight minutes, and consisted of a single orbit of Earth. Tajtarova Gagarin landed in Siberia, after a parachute jump. The Soviet government denied this for years for fear of not recognizing the validity of travel by land the ship without a pilot. It is said that the first person who approached him in the farm field that hosted his jump, was a peasant who asked him whether he was from space, he answered affirmatively, then to clarify that anyway, the Soviet era. In the popular imagination is the story that Gagarin had said that they "do not see God anywhere, but apparently it was the then Soviet President Nikita Khrushchev, who said that Gagarin had not seen God in his visit to space. That video is just a bit tricky: no images of Earth taken from the ship.
With this historic first spaceflight of a human being (let's not forget
Laika), the Soviet Union took much advantage to the United States in the space race.
Indeed, it is clear the trip was space but very close: the distance the ground that reached the Vostok 1 is comparable to that between Madrid and Barcelona. 'd Bet anything that any newspaper or TV show, recalling the feat, is released with something like "the first traveler to the stars."
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