Gagarin

Leonov believes the first boom he heard was that of the jet breaking the sound barrier, and the second was Gagarin's plane crashing.

Gagarin smiled and said he already knew; his instructor, equally protective, had already let him in on the secret.

A prison doctor started treating him for TB with a four-drug regimen, but Gagarin said the prison sometimes ran out of the drugs.

As Felix, Joe and I move around the Air and Space Museum, Felix says the sight of John Glenn's and Yuri Gagarin's space suits scares him.

There are statues and busts of him outside the Yuri A. Gagarin Russian State Science Research Cosmonaut Training Center.

The flight was to be fully automatic, but what if weightlessness caused Gagarin to go mad and override the programmed controls?

Despite the risks, competition for the mission was strong among the 20 young pilots on the short list, and Gagarin was the favorite.

By the time the rocket was ready for launch, Yuri Gagarin had already gone into space for the Soviet Union.

Gagarin wrote a 10-page memo and gave it to his best friend in the KGB, Venyamin Russayev, but nobody dared send it up the chain of command.

History books say that Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space, but was he?

Because of the dreams of exploring the outerspace, Gagarin became the first man to see Earth from the outside.

The figure is a copy of one sited in the town of Lubertsy, just outside Moscow, where Gagarin trained as a foundry worker in his mid-teens.

Gagarin had the great distinction of being the first man to go into space.

Gagarin's flight was meant to demonstrate the superiority of Soviet technology and, by extension, of the Communist way of doing things.

It happened 50 years ago this Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.

But Britain has links with Cosmonaut Gagarin, as one of the first countries he visited after his return to Earth.

In April nineteen sixty-one, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched in the vehicle known as Vostok.

Yuri Gagarin died in a plane accident in 1968, a year before the Americans reached the moon.

When the Soviet Union put the first man in space in 1961, Yuri Gagarin's flight was celebrated as a major Cold War victory.

7Mr. Gagarin with his wife, Valentina, and daughter Yelena in 1960.

Like America's Right-Stuff Mercury astronauts, Gagarin was a perfect tool for Soviet propaganda.

It was very similar to feeling among Americans when Gagarin went into orbit.

Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space orbiting the earth once before making a safe landing.

A statue of Gagarin flying through a ring that represents earthly limitations.

Until today, we also could find the names of those house-owners in the sidewalks, like Tolstoy, Gagarin etc.

Mr. Gagarin training before his historic space flight at the age of 27.

His teachers described Gagarin as intelligent and hard- working , if occasionally mischievous .

Korolyov and others flew to the landing area and met with Gagarin at a Communist Party guesthouse.

Fifty years have elapsed since a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, lit the blue touchpaper on the era of manned spaceflight.

It's Cosmonauts Day, a holiday honoring Gagarin's first flight into space, and in Star City the celebration lasts late into the night.

FIFTY years have elapsed since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin lit the blue touchpaper on the era of manned spaceflight.

Yuri Gagarin, the very first man in space, launched from here.

The Gagarin of 1967 was very different from the carefree young man of 1961.

Yuri Gagarin, an astronaut of russia, was the first man that had gone up into space.

In 1961, the Soviet Union dealt the American space program another blow when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.

40- Meter monument to Yuri Gagarin in Moscow, made of titanium .

The mission, Gagarin suggested, should be postponed.

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and astronaut Alan Shepard -- the first men in space -- became household names.

There are, however, no such words in the full verbatim record of Gagarin's conversations with the Earth during the spaceflight .

Gagarin bailed out as planned, and parachuted onto a field near the Volga River about 720 kilometers (450 miles) southeast of Moscow.

9A display cabinet at the Memorial Museum of Astronautics in Moscow showcases Yuri Gagarin memorabilia.

Yuri Gagarin, the first Soviet cosmonaut , was traveling into the unknown.

On April 12th, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. He flew around the Earth for 108 minutes.

He was the second man, after the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin, to orbit the earth.

Gagarin met Russayev at his family apartment but refused to speak in any of the rooms because he was worried about bugs.

A model rocket was launched in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sunday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mr. Gagarin's spaceflight.

Russians celebrate Cosmonaut Day on April 12, the day Soviet hero Yury Gagarin became the first man in space, in 1961.

And then we flew Alan Shepherd weeks after Gagarin, not months or decades, or whatever.

When did Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space?

There always has to be the first. . . Without Yuri Gagarin flying, I would probably have not flown to the moon.

Gagarin then became deputy training director of Star City .

A Russian, Yuri Gagarin was the first man who went up.

A month after Gagarin's flight. President Kennedyof the USA made a famous speech.

Twenty-three days after Gagarin's flight, on May 5, 1961, American Alan Shepard became the second man in space.

One year earlier Gagarin died in a plane crash.

There are numerous streets, avenues and squares bearing Gagarin's name in Russian towns and cities.

Half a century ago on 12 April, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union became the first mankind orbiting the Earth.

In 1968, Russia's national pride, the first into space Yuri Gagarin died in the Brezhnev era a flying accident.

Born on March 9, 1934, Gagarin was a military pilot before being chosen for the first group of cosmonauts in 1960.

A crater on the far side of the Moon and an asteroid , 1772 Gagarin , are named after the cosmonaut .

The first man to orbit the earth was Yuri Gagarin.

Gagarin died in 1968, after crashing a MiG fighter during a training flight.

This thing was designed three years after Gagarin first flew in space in 1961.

As a full-grown man, Gagarin was 5 feet 2 inches ( approx. 157. 5 Cm ) tall, which was an advantage in the small Vostok cockpit .

Like millions of people in the Soviet Union , the Gagarin family suffered great hardship in World War II.

Yuri Gagarin died in a plane crash in 1968.

but nobody expected togo there until 1961 whenYuri Gagarin made thefirst manned spaceflight.

At one point Gagarin said, "I must go to see the main man [Brezhnev] personally. "

And then there was Gagarin's own death on March 27, 1968.

But, according to the Judica-Cordiglia brothers from Italy, Gagarin wasn't the first.

But he wouldn't back out because he didn't want Gagarin to die.

Just 18 days later, the 3KA-3 manned capsule, later renamed Vostok 1, carried Gagarin on the world's first space flight.