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.

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.

" 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 ).

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.

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

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

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The report states that an air traffic controller provided Gagarin with outdated weather information, and that by the time of his flight, conditions had deteriorated significantly.

Those documents revealed that the commission's original conclusion was that Gagarin or Seryogin had maneuvered sharply either to avoid a weather balloon, leading the jet into a " super-critical flight regime and to its stalling in complex meteorological conditions ," or to avoid " entry into the upper limit of the first layer of cloud cover ".

The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, was Russian, and the first artificial satellite to be put into outer space, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union and was developed mainly by Sergey Korolyov who had a Russian father ( his mother was Ukrainian ).

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.

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.

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.

He then ordered another retreat to Gzhatsk ( Gagarin ) on August 30, at that time the ratio of French to Russian forces had shrunk from 3: 1 to 5: 4.

The award was a new design created in memory of Gagarin who had died the previous March, and it continues to be awarded to this day.

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

Delayed several times, the liftoff came 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin had become the first man to be sent into outer space, on the April 12, 1961 liftoff of Vostok 1.

The player and Ivan must run a computer simulation in the correct order to restart the countdown and help Yuri Gagarin become the first human in outer space.

Since 2008, the Gagarin Air Academy is a part of the school apparatus, and both have become the Gagarin-Zhukovsky Military Combined Air Force Academy, with its Moscow main campus retained.

Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after him.

Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG 15 training jet he was piloting crashed.

After studying for one year at a vocational technical school in Lyubertsy, Gagarin was selected for further training at a technical high school in Saratov.

Gagarin was further selected for an elite training group known as the Sochi Six, from which the first cosmonauts of the Vostok programme would be chosen.

Gagarin and other prospective candidates were subjected to experiments designed to test physical and psychological endurance ; he also underwent training for the upcoming flight.

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.

When Komarov's flight ended in a fatal crash, Gagarin was permanently banned from training for and participating in further spaceflights.

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.

In May 2004, Yamazaki completed Soyuz-TMA Flight Engineer training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in Star City, Russia.

American businessman Dennis Tito received training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City in Russia.

During his training for a Mir expedition, he lived and trained in Star City, Russia at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

He served as the liaison between the Astronaut Office and the training organization at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City.

In August 2001, De Winne took up training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center near Moscow, Russia.

Blaha began Russian language training in August 1994 at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and commenced an intensive training program at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia in January 1995.

1985 to 1987 Viktor Afanasyev was taking basic space training course at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on the part-time training basis.

As NASA's lead representative to the Russian Aviation and Space Agency ( Rosaviakosmos ) and its contractors, he provided oversight of all human space flight operations, logistics, and technical functions, including NASA's mission operations in Korolev and crew training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.

In 1994, Cameron served as the first NASA Director of Operations in Star City, Russia, where he worked with the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center staff to set up a support system for astronaut operations and training in Star City, and received Russian training in Soyuz and Mir spacecraft systems, and flight training in Russian L-39 aircraft.

In 1987, after a successful tour as Commander of the Gagarin Military Air-Force Academy, he was selected as a cosmonaut for training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Gagarin was ranked as the # 6 most popular space hero, tied with Star Trek's fictional Capt.

Chris Hadfield was the Director of Operations for NASA at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center ( GCTC ) in Star City, Russia from 2001 until 2003.

He next trained at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia in preparation for a long-duration flight.

* Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia

From March to October 1995 he served as the Director of Operations for NASA at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.

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.

From June 1997 to February 1998, he served as NASA Director of Operations at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia.

Following his first mission, in January 1995, he began training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, in preparation for a long-duration stay aboard the Russian Space Station Mir.

As NASA ’ s lead representative to the Russian Aviation and Space Agency ( Rosaviakosmos ) and its contractors, his role is to continue oversight of all human space flight operations, logistics, and technical functions, including NASA ’ s mission operations in Korolev and crew training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City.

This included NASA operations, logistics, and technical functions in Moscow, at NASA ’ s Mission Control Center operations in Korolev, and NASA ’ s crew training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City.

He spent five months in training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Moscow, Russia.

Stafford ( right ) and cosmonaut Alexey Leonov training for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project at Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center | Star City.

From November 1994 to March 1995, Sega was the NASA Director of Operations, Star City, Russia ( The Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center ) responsible for managing NASA activities at Star City.