" Circling the Earth in the orbital spaceship I marveled of the beauty of our Planet.
People of the World : Let us safeguard and enchance this beauty - not destroy it ! "
(Yurij Gagarin)
Yuri Gagarin
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On April 12, 1961 Juriy Gagarin performed the First Space Flight in the History of the Mankind (onboard the Vostok space vehicle).
He flew around the Earth within one hour and 48 minutes and successfully landed on the outskirts of Smelovka village, Saratovskay region.
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He was the first human to orbit Earth.
SINCE 1961 MORE THAN 400 HUMAN BEINGS HAVE VENTURED INTO SPACE
Yuri A. Gagarin said: "I could have gone on flying through space forever."
and:
“It is better too be wrong to soon than right too lateâ€
A crater on the far side of the Moon is named for Yuri Gagarin
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Videorecording of the returning of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin the very first Cosmonaut of Planet Earth
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Colonel Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: ???? ?????????? ???????, Jurij Alekseevic Gagarin)
( March 9, 1934-March 27, 1968 )
was a Russian cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human in space and the first human to orbit the Earth.
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Gagarin with Valentina Tereshkova, the First Woman in Space