First Man on Space

This year would be Gagarin’s 78^th birthday.

First man in space born in 1934 at village Klushino Gzhatsk district of Smolensk region.

His carrier started when he started to study in Luberets College, from that time Gagarin forever linked his life to aviation.

9^th December of 1959 Gagarin wrote application which requested to enroll him in a group of astronauts. On March 1960 he was chosen and he began his trainings.

The world's first ship-to-satellite "Vostok" with a man on the board was launched into earth orbit on 12^th of April in 1961. There were launched double radio connections.  His famous Phrase was before flight ,only one single word "Poekhali".The duration of the first flight was 108 minutes.

Yuri Gagarin became citizen of whole world when the happy news flew among the Planet.  Confidence and courage of simple Russian guy conquered whole world. A fearlessness and bravery character was inherent to Gagarin. Gagarin was superbly prepared for his encounter with history, both physically and technologically. On the night before his flight while others paced and worried, "Cosmonaut One" slumbered. When asked how he could sleep so peacefully on the eve of the launching, Yuri answered, "Would it be right to take off if I were not rested? It was my duty to sleep so I slept." This is discipline and dedication at its best.

At the conclusion of his flight, he was subjected to the most intensive debriefing and scientific examination. It was found in spite of the difficult and strange weightless environment, his great skill permitted him to work and to record important data which his fellow astronauts and scientific collaborators would find vital to future space flights.

At the end of 1961 Yuri Gagarin went to travel across the world for 2 years. Kings and Presidents, Politics and Scientists, Artist and Musicians wanted to meet and see cosmonaut.

In 1963 Gagarin became deputy chief of the Cosmonaut Training Center.

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The first flight in the world was at
Baikonur Space Craft Station, Kazakhstan.

Gagarin’s adventure was a total success. The United States was stunned at the news and NASA rushed to get an astronaut into space. It wasn’t until May 5, 1961, that Alan Shepard was launched into space to become the first US astronaut, but only following a ballistic missile trajectory. It wasn’t until the next year that the US put an astronaut in orbit, when John Glenn circled the Earth for 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds aboard the Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962.

After becoming a hero of the Soviet Union, Gagarin was grounded forever, too precious to be lost by the propaganda machinery of the draconian communist regime. He returned to Star City – where the Soviet Union developed their space program – to work on reusable spacecraft designs, but he never got into one himself again. In fact, after Vladimir Komarov died in the first Soyuz flight, Gagarin – who was his backup pilot – was banned from even training for spaceflight.

It was ironic because only a few years later Gagarin died in a routine fighter pilot training flight, on March 27, 1968, aged 34. It was only two years after Korolev died from cancer – his role as the father of the space program still completely ignored by everyone.

Gagarin moved then from the status of hero to legend. For the people of Russia – sad and pessimistic – and to the entire world he represented an optimistic view of the future. Yuri, the son of simple farmer, flew into space. He did it and he believed in a bright, better future, in which humans would travel to the stars. And, during his short life, he transmitted that optimism to everyone who met him.

They just don’t make them like these anymore.

Godspeed Yuri Alekseyevich. You’ll be remembered forever.