After his space flight he continued to work with the space program at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Gagarin radios, "... the lights are on on the descent mode monitor.

" They were asking Gagarin to report when the spacecraft automated descent system had received its instructions from the ground control.

The Soviet Union did not admit until 1971 that Gagarin had ejected and landed separately from the Vostok descent module.

In 1961, the sky was no longer the limit for manned flight, as Yuri Gagarin orbited once around the planet within 108 minutes, and then used the descent module of Vostok I to safely reenter the atmosphere and reduce speed from Mach 25 using friction and converting velocity into heat.

Soyuz TMA-19 carrying the trio of Yurchikhin, Wheelock and Walker undocked from the space station at 01: 23: 13 GMT After a nominal descent, the Soyuz TMA-19 descent module landed on the central steppes of Kazakhstan at 04: 46 GMT After the successful landing, Yurchikhin headed for Star City-the home of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

That evening Gagarin and Titov relaxed by listening to music, playing pool, and chatting about their childhoods.

Following a series of tests and checks, about forty minutes after Gagarin entered the spacecraft, its hatch was closed.

Gagarin, on the other hand, was described as calm ; about half an hour before launch his pulse was recorded at 64 beats per minute.

* 06: 25 UT As Vostok 1 begins its diagonal crossing of the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka peninsula to the southern tip of South America, Gagarin asks, " What can you tell me about the flight?

Gagarin's parachute opened almost right away, and about ten minutes later, at 08: 05 UT, Gagarin landed.

In a 2006 interview, Gagarin's friend Colonel Valentin Petrov stated that the cosmonaut never said such words, and that the quote originated from Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU about the state's anti-religion campaign, saying " Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

The cause of the crash that killed Gagarin is not entirely certain, and has been subject to speculation about conspiracy theories over the ensuing decades.

Meanwhile Komarov and his fellow cosmonauts had their groups and assignments constantly revised and they became increasingly anxious about the lack of response to their concerns about the design and manufacture of space craft which had been raised in a letter to Leonid Brezhnev by Yuri Gagarin on their behalf.

When interviewed on May 17 by the newspaper Komosmolskaya Pravda, Yuri Gagarin alluded to the failure of the administration to listen to the concerns about the Soyuz module that were identified by the cosmonaut corps and that Komarov's death should teach the establishment to be more rigorous in its testing and evaluation of " all the mechanisms of the spaceship, even more attentive to all stages of checking and testing, even more vigilant in our encounter with the unknown.

The old Yuri Gagarin airport, only about 1. 7 km from the city's center, connects the city to the rest of the country.

The assignments were formally made on April 8, four days before the mission, but Gagarin had been a favourite among the cosmonaut candidates for at least several months.

The community of Sevan has 8 public education schools with one of them operating in the village of Gagarin.

* A 6-track promo version of Métamorphoses exists with an extended version of " Hey Gagarin " ( length 8: 33 ).

Gagarin's biographers Doran and Bizony say that neither Gagarin nor Titov slept that night.

* Gagarin's Start – short video by Roscosmos including the preparation, Gagarin's flight, and Gagarin back on Earth

Gagarin was backup pilot for his friend Vladimir Komarov in the Soyuz 1 flight, which was launched despite Gagarin's protests that additional safety precautions were necessary.

Swiss-based German watchmaker Bernhard Lederer created a limited edition of 50 Gagarin Tourbillons to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight.

Grigory Gagarin | Prince Gagarin's reproduction of the royal panel at Betania, depicting George IV ( left ), Tamar ( center ), and George III ( right ), flanked by the warrior saints ( 1847 )

Zvyozdochka ( Zvezdochka, Звёздочка, or " Starlet "), who was named by Yuri Gagarin, made one orbit on board Korabl-Sputnik 5 on March 25, 1961 with a wooden cosmonaut dummy in the final practice flight before Gagarin's historic flight on April 12.

The three-member Expedition 1 crew successfully launched on 31 October 2000, at 07: 52 UTC, atop a Soyuz-U rocket on Soyuz TM-31 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ; they used launch pad Gagarin's Start, from which the first human to fly in space, Yuri Gagarin, was launched in 1961.

According to Golyakhovsky, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin spent several hours at the hospital as " deathwatch officer " and Bondarenko died of shock 16 hours after the accident, less than three weeks before Gagarin's historic spaceflight.

It is entirely contained within the much larger walled plain Gagarin, and lies in the northwestern part of Gagarin's interior floor.

Gagarin transmits over HF radio, " I am transmitting the regular report message: 9 hours 48 minutes ( Moscow Time ), the flight is proceeding successfully.

In his post-flight report, Gagarin recalled his experience of spaceflight, having been the first human in space:

The report states that an air traffic controller provided Gagarin with outdated weather information, and that by the time of his flight, conditions had deteriorated significantly.

In May 1967, Gagarin and Leonov criticised Mishin's " poor knowledge of the Soyuz spacecraft and the details of its operation, his lack of cooperation in working with the cosmonauts in flight and training activities " and asked Kamanin for him to be cited in the official report into the crash.

During this time Gagarin requested some music to be played over the radio.

* 06: 57 UT Vostok 1 is over the South Pacific between New Zealand and Chile when Gagarin sends this message, "... I'm continuing the flight, and I'm over America.

Titov orbited the Earth over 17 times, exceeding the single orbit of Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 − as well as the suborbital spaceflights of American astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom aboard their respective Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4 missions.

The most interesting bridge in Zhytomir is one over the Teteriv River in Gagarin Park.

At 10 am ( Moscow Time ), Gagarin and Titov were given a final review of the flight plan.

Gagarin entered the Vostok 1 spacecraft, and at 7: 10 am local time ( 04: 10 UT ), the radio communication system was turned on.

* Tresor 37: Gagarin Kongress – Astralleib ( 12 ")

John Glenn became the first American ( third overall, following Gagarin and Titov ) to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, during the third manned Mercury flight.

John Glenn became the first American ( third overall, following Gagarin and Titov ) to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, during the third manned Mercury flight.

When Gagarin and Titov were informed of the decision during a meeting on April 9, Gagarin was very happy, and Titov was disappointed.

Launch would not occur for another two hours, and during the time Gagarin chatted with the mission's main CapCom, as well as Chief Designer Sergei Korolev, Nikolai Kamanin, and a few others.

Like millions of people in the Soviet Union, the Gagarin family suffered during Nazi occupation in World War II.

Out of the twenty selected, the eventual choices for the first launch were Gagarin and Gherman Titov due to their performance during training sessions as well as their physical characteristics — space was limited in the small Vostok cockpit, and both men were rather short.

Following the flight, Gagarin told the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that during reentry he had whistled the tune " The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows " ().

Some sources have claimed that Gagarin commented during the flight, " I don't see any God up here.

Gagarin was also honored by the American space program during Apollo 11 when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left a memorial satchel containing medals commemorating Gagarin and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov on the surface of the Moon.

Gagarin Raion in the Sevastopol city ( Ukraine ) was named after him during the Soviet Union.

* The Seliger system was tested during the 1960 launches of the Vostok capsule, including Sputnik 5, containing the space dogs Belka and Strelka, whose images are often mistaken for the dog Laika and the 1961 flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space on Vostok 1.

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin wore a Shturmanskie ( a transliteration of Штурманские which actually means “ navigator ’ s ”) wristwatch during his historic first flight into space.

He was an expert in spacecraft, especially Russian ones and worked as a translator from Russian during Juriy Gagarin visit to Sweden.

( from r. to l .) Nikita Khrushchev, Valentina Tereshkova, Pavel Popovich and Yury Gagarin at the Lenin Mausoleum, during a celebration honouring the Soviet cosmonauts, 1963

It was developed on a wide-scale basis in Russia during the reign of Alexander II by Grigory Gagarin and his followers who designed St Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kiev, St Nicholas Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Saint Mark's church in Belgrade and the New Athos Monastery in New Athos near Sukhumi.

The Soviet Union then launched Vostok 1 carrying the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into Earth orbit during 1961.

By November 1961, the Soviets had launched Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov into orbit during the Vostok 1 and Vostok 2 manned orbital flights.

The large star is for Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space during Vostok 1, who was killed during training for Soyuz 3.