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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.
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 ).
At 07: 55 UT, when Vostok 1 was still 7 km from the ground, the hatch of the spacecraft was released, and two seconds later Gagarin was ejected.
Gagarin's parachute opened almost right away, and about ten minutes later, at 08: 05 UT, Gagarin landed.
Gagarin later recalled, " When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear.
The Soviet press later reported that minutes before boarding the spacecraft Gagarin made a speech: " Dear friends, you who are close to me, and you whom I do not know, fellow Russians, and people of all countries and all continents: in a few minutes a powerful space vehicle will carry me into the distant realm of space.
Sergei Korolev, one of the masterminds behind the early years of the Soviet space program, later said that Gagarin possessed a smile " that lit up the Cold War ".
He was later invited to visit the Soviet Union, where he met Yuri Gagarin, the first man to journey into outer space.
The FAI initially did not recognize the achievement because he did not land in his Vostok spacecraft ( he ejected from it ), but later it recognized that Gagarin was the first human to fly into space.
The Russian Air Force academy has been named in his honor: Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy () later reorganized into Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy ()
He began training on 31 May for a planned launch on the spacecraft Vostok 1 ( aboard which Yuri Gagarin carried out the first human spaceflight a year later ).
Less than three weeks later, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin would, on April 12, would reach the milestone.

Gagarin and became
After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.
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.
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.
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.
In the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space and the second person following Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union who flew one month earlier.
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.
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 1 manned spacecraft on 12 April 1961.
Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour.
In his youth, Gagarin became interested in space and planets.
On 12 April 1961, aboard the Vostok 3KA-3 ( Vostok 1 ), Gagarin became both the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the earth.
After the flight, Gagarin became a worldwide celebrity, touring widely abroad.
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 first person to fly in space, Yuri Gagarin, became also the first to complete an orbital spaceflight on spaceship Vostok 1, in 1961.
* Yuri Gagarin ( March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968 ) – Soviet astronaut who on April 12, 1961 became the first man in space and the first human to orbit Earth.
In 2004, Thirsk trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow and became certified as a Flight Engineer for the Soyuz spacecraft.
Selected by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center ( GCTC ) Sharipov became a cosmonaut-candidate in 1990.
He was awarded a doctorate in technical sciences in 1974, and in 1989 he became the first Deputy Chief of Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, a position from which he retired in May 2000.
Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
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.
" Gagarin " SturmanskieOn April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.

Gagarin and deputy
Gagarin had become deputy training director of the Star City cosmonaut training base.

Gagarin and training
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.

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