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

In front of this is a 3 meter tall, white stone statue of Yuri Gagarin, wearing a spacesuit, with one arm raised in greeting and the other holding a space helmet.

In 1960, after much searching and a selection process, Yuri Gagarin was chosen with 19 other pilots for the Soviet space program.

When the 20 candidates were asked to anonymously vote for which other candidate they would like to see as the first to fly, all but three chose Gagarin.

In part two of them ( Gagarin and Lenin ) includes only the streets, and the other two ( Balaklava and Nakhimovskiy district ) are also subject to 28 villages surrounding the city and more than 30 settlements without the status of settlement ( such as agricultural or special settlements ).

He also served as the NASA JSC representative to the Russian Space Agency, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City ; Mission Control Center-Moscow, Energia Rocket and Spacecraft Corporation, Krunichev State Scientific and Production Space Center and other Russian government agencies and manufacturers involved in the ISS program.

* The original office of Yuri Gagarin and a number of monuments and busts to him and other cosmonauts.

This was followed by other animal missions of developed as manned Vostok spacecraft ( first successful was Sputnik 5 in 1960 ), until Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made a first manned orbital flight of Earth in 108 minutes on April 12, 1961.

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.

In August 1960, when Gagarin was one of 20 possible candidates, an Air Force doctor evaluated his personality as follows:

One of these candidates, Yevgeny Khrunov, believed that Gagarin was very focused, and was demanding of himself and others when necessary.

On that cold, but bright, April day we were guests of your government in the reviewing stand of Red Square to witness the poeple's celebration for Yuri Gagarin and later on that day we attended the somewhat more exclusive reception for him in one of the impressive palaces of the Kremlin.

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

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

At 5: 30 am Moscow time, on the morning of April 12, 1961, both Gagarin and his backup Titov were woken.

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

Gagarin telegraphed " Everything is OK " despite continuing gyrations ; he later reported that he did not want to " make noise " as he had ( correctly ) reasoned that the gyrations did not endanger the mission ( and were apparently caused by the spherical shape of the reentry module ).

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.

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.

The bodies of Gagarin and Seryogin were cremated and the ashes were buried in the walls of the Kremlin on Red Square.

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 cosmonauts were given a large state funeral and buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis at Red Square, Moscow near the remains of Yuri Gagarin.

The first manned space flights were made in early 1961, first by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and then by American astronaut Alan Shepard.

As of 2008, there were 4 nursery schools in Sevan and 1 in Gagarin.

Among the visitors were Yuri Gagarin and the Indonesian president Sukarno.

These dates were chosen to commemorate the flight of Yuri Gagarin ( 12 April 1961 ), the first human in space.

Her descendents were known as Princes Gagarin family | Gagarin-Sturdza.

The lead architects behind the mission were Sergei Korolev and Kerim Kerimov, with Yuri Gagarin being the first astronaut.

After Komarov's death in Soyuz 1 in 1967, Gagarin was taken out of training and the groups were restructured.

Fyodorov's parents were the Rurikid knyaz ( noble ) Pavel Ivanovich Gagarin and Elisaveta Ivanova, a woman of lower-class nobility.

In April of that year, Komarov toured St. Petersburg, Russia, with Kamanin, Gagarin, Gherman Titov, Belyayev, and Leonov, and Komarov visited Petropavlovsk Fortress with Valentin Glushko where he had conducted the first rocket experiments in the early 1930s.

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.

He was a test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center ( TsPK ).

Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev (), Russian Air Force Colonel and test cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, was born October 29, 1952 in the town of Kap-Yar, Astrakhan Oblast and currently resides at Star City, Moscow Region.

Since termination of the Buran program in 1997, Tokarev has been assigned as a test cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

It succeeded in the first but not the second: in the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space ; however the Soviet Union had put Yuri Gagarin into space one month earlier.

Although some contemporary Soviet sources stated that Gagarin had parachuted separately to the ground, the Soviet Union officially insisted that he had landed with the Vostok ; the government forced the cosmonaut to lie in press conferences, and the FAI certified the flight.

Ryder has one full sibling, a younger brother, Uri ( named in honor of the first Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin ), and two half siblings from her mother's prior marriage: an older half-brother, Jubal Palmer ; and an older half-sister, Sunyata Palmer.

" Petrov also said that Gagarin had been baptised into the Orthodox Church as a child, and a 2011 Foma magazine article quoted the rector of the Orthodox church in Star City saying, " Gagarin baptized his elder daughter Elena shortly before his space flight ; and his family used to celebrate Christmas and Easter and keep icons in the house.

The delays led to a circumstance similar to that of the first satellite ; on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first person to orbit the Earth.

At the Federation's 62nd general conference held in Helsinki, Finland, Beregovoy was awarded the first Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal for achievements in space ; Finnish President Urho Kekkonen was the honorary presenter on July 14, 1968.

Gagarin (), or Gagarina ( feminine ; Гагарина ), is a Russian surname derived from the word gagara, meaning loon ( a waterbird, genus Gavia ) and may also refer to:

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.

Space exploration was also highly developed: in October 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit ; in April 1961 a Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, became the first man in space.

One group was commanded by Vladimir Komarov and included Yuri Gagarin, and was to prepare for qualification flights of the Soyuz in Earth orbit and a Proton launched cis-lunar mission ( Gagarin, Nikolayev, Komarov, Bykovskiy, Khrunov ; Engineer-Cosmonauts: Gorbatko, Grechko, Sevastyanov, Kubasov, Volkov ).

Image: Moscow-Gagarin-Square-1622. jpg | Moscow, Gagarin square ; note different finishes