enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin [a] [b] (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space.

  3. Yuri Gagarin | Biography & Facts | Britannica

    www.britannica.com/biography/Yuri-Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut who on April 12, 1961, became the first man to travel into space. His Vostok 1 spacecraft orbited Earth once in 1 hour 29 minutes at a maximum altitude of 187 miles, bringing Gagarin immediate worldwide fame.

  4. List of space travellers by first flight - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_travellers_by_first_flight

    Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space and in orbit. Alan Shepard, the first American and the second person in space. Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman and 12th person in space. Alexei Leonov, joint 17th in space and first to perform an EVA.

  5. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space

    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-man-in-space

    On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot...

  6. What Really Happened to Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space?

    www.history.com/news/what-really-happened-to-yuri-gagarin-the-first-man-in-space

    Seven years after becoming the first man to fly into outer space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin died in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances.

  7. What Really Happened to Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space?

    science.howstuffworks.com/yuri-gagarin.htm

    There have been a lot of groundbreaking firsts in human history, but only one person can claim to be the first in outer space. That's Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut who breached Earth's atmosphere and zipped into orbit in 1961.

  8. April 1961 - First Human Entered Space - NASA

    www.nasa.gov/image-article/april-1961-first-human-entered-space

    Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a speed of 27,400 kilometers per hour with the flight lasting 108 minutes. Vostok's reentry was controlled by a computer.

  9. Yuri Gagarin: First Human in Space - NASA Science

    science.nasa.gov/resource/yuri-gagarin-first-human-in-space

    On April 12, 1961, the era of human spaceflight began when the Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in his Vostock I spacecraft. The flight lasted 108 minutes.

  10. Yuri Gagarin: Facts about the first human in space | Space

    www.space.com/16159-first-man-in-space.html

    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human in space. In 1961, he orbited Earth aboard the Vostok 1 space capsule, the first-ever crewed spacecraft.

  11. Yuri Gagarin | The first human in space - New Scientist

    www.newscientist.com/people/yuri-gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut famous for being the first human ever to enter space, spending 108 minutes orbiting the globe in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.