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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.
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The first human spaceflight in history was accomplished on a derivative of R-7, Vostok, on 12 April 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
27-year-old Yuri Gagarin was the only crew member of Vostok 1.
In an April 5 diary entry, Kamanin wrote that he was still undecided between Gagarin and Titov.
When Gagarin and Titov were informed of the decision during a meeting on April 9, Gagarin was very happy, and Titov was disappointed.
Gagarin was examined by a team of doctors prior to his flight.
This was a different Gagarin.
Gagarin entered the Vostok 1 spacecraft, and at 7: 10 am local time ( 04: 10 UT ), the radio communication system was turned on.
Once Gagarin was in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, his picture appeared on television screens in the launch control room from an onboard camera.
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.
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.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968 ) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.
Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour.
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.
Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk ( renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death ), ( now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia ), on 9 March 1934.
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.
In 1960, after much searching and a selection process, Yuri Gagarin was chosen with 19 other pilots for the Soviet space program.
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Gagarin and other prospective candidates were subjected to experiments designed to test physical and psychological endurance ; he also underwent training for the upcoming flight.
Gagarin was also a favoured candidate by his peers.
In addition to being a keen ice hockey player, Gagarin was also a basketball fan, and coached the Saratov Industrial Technical School team, as well as being an umpire / referee.
" 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.
Gagarin also garnered a reputation as an adept public figure.
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 ).
The first person to fly in space, Yuri Gagarin, became also the first to complete an orbital spaceflight on spaceship Vostok 1, in 1961.
The Soviets also sent the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin, in 1961.
He is also an honorary citizen of Gagarin, Kaluga ( Russia ), Arkalyk ( Kazakhstan ), and Houston ( U. S .).
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:
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.
Phillips has also been awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the Gagarin Medal and several others.
He also developed technical documentation and, together with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, coordinated all facets of cosmonaut training.
The village of Gagarin with its 1, 200 dwellers, is also considered a part of the Sevan community, although being formed as a separate village, thus making the population of all the community around 23, 200.
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.
Kosberg also lies just to the west of a similarly sized, but deeper and more prominent bowl-shaped crater, Gagarin G.
* Official webpage of Gagarin, as drummer Dids is also known
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In reality, Gagarin landed separately by parachute while the space craft crashed to the ground, but the Soviet Union did not admit this until 1971.
The Soviet space program achieved many of the first milestones, including the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight ( Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 ) in 1961, the first spacewalk ( by Aleksei Leonov ) in 1965, the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966, and the launch of the first space station ( Salyut 1 ) in 1971.
This included an acceptance speech by Gagarin.
That evening Gagarin and Titov relaxed by listening to music, playing pool, and chatting about their childhoods.
* 07: 09 UT Gagarin sends spacecraft status message, the message is not received by ground stations.
* 07: 18 UT Gagarin sends spacecraft status message, the message is not received by ground stations.
* 07: 23 UT Gagarin sends spacecraft status message, the message is not received by ground stations.
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 ).
In 2011, documentary film maker Christopher Riley partnered with European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli to record a new film of what Gagarin would have seen of the Earth from his spaceship, by matching historical audio recordings to video from the International Space Station following the ground path taken by Vostok 1.
* Gagarin's Start – short video by Roscosmos including the preparation, Gagarin's flight, and Gagarin back on Earth
Gagarin was survived by his wife Valentina, and daughters Elena and Galina.
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.
A film entitled First Orbit was shot from the International Space Station, combining the original flight audio with footage of the route taken by Gagarin.
* Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space-slideshow by Life magazine
* 11 minutes long interview of Yuri Gagarin by The Finnish Broadcasting Company in 1961
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 )
This sentiment was further inspired by the rediscovery of a contemporary, 13th-century wall painting of Tamar in the then-ruined Betania monastery, which was uncovered and restored by Prince Grigory Gagarin in the 1840s.
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 ).
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