This Russian's one-orbit flight on April 12, 1961 was his first & only venture into space
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Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space | The Greatest Moments in Flight  Jul 24, 2012 ... On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first ... he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1). ... Only a few years later, he submitted his request to be considered as a cosmonaut.
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Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia  Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. .... On 12 April 1961, the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft with Gagarin aboard was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome...
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First man in space - Apr 12, 1961 - HISTORY.com  Apr 12, 1981 ... On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet ... the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule ... The only statement attributed to Gagarin during his one hour and 48 minutes in space was, Flight is ... (which launched the first satellite into space in 1957), the successes...
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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., May 5, 1961 | NASA  Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. sits in his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, ready for launch. ... On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard Jr. became the first American in space when ... Glenn's three orbits in five hours was eclipsed on the next flight and each .... April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human in...
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NASA - Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space  Apr 13, 2011 ... April 12, 1961: Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. ... in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft.
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Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia  Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. .... Here, you feel as if you were hanging in a horizontal position in straps. You feel as if you are suspended. Vostok I capsule...
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Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia  Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. .... Gagarin's informal poyekhali! became a historical phrase in the Eastern Bloc, used to refer to the .... He said "let's go!
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Yuri Gagarin - Biography - IMDb  Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man to enter deep space on April 12, 1961, when the Soviet ... He eventually was promoted to the rank of full Colonel of the Soviet Air Force. ... I could have gone on flying through space forever. [on the first manned space flight, quoted in the New York Times, 14 April 1961].
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jeopardy/2022_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  This Russian's one-orbit flight on April 12, 1961 was his first & only venture into space | Yuri Gagarin. right: Travis ... ARCHIE-OLOGY | Midge's boyfriend, he suffers from dyslexia | Moose. right: Lynn .... SPANS | The Astoria Bridge in Washington & Oregon is one of this type that sounds like it suffers from a hernia | truss. right:.
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First Space Tourist: How a U.S. Millionaire Bought a Ticket to Orbit  Apr 27, 2011 ... Forty years to the month after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, ... Tito launched in April 2001 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft ... If the era of commercial spaceflight has a birthday, it's April 28, 2001. ... He would turn 60 later that year, and he felt like his chances of getting into space were...
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Alan Shepard: First American in Space - Space.com  May 5, 2014 ... He later went to the moon on Apollo 14. ... NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961 aboard .... After a struggle with leukemia, Shepard passed away on July 21, 1998, at the age of 74.
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First woman in space marks 50 years of her historic flight - Science  Jun 15, 2013 ... First woman in space marks 50 years of her historic flight ... of her flight, which came a little more than two years after the Soviet Union put the first man into orbit. ... ship on June 14, 1963, and Tereshkova followed him on June 16. ... A few months later she married cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev with Soviet...
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Time Line of Space Exploration - RocketMime  October 11, 1958 - Pioneer 1, U.S. - IGY space probe, launched to a height of ... On April 24 it crashed, killing Komarov, the first spaceflight fatality. ... 9 (launched May 30, 1971) is the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, Mars. .... April 5, 1991 - Space Shuttle Atlantis carries the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory into orbit.
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The History Notes: Yuri Gagarin - The First Spaceman  May 31, 2011 ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the Smolensk region of the former Union of ... Yuri Gagarin (1934 - 1968) ... and received word that he had been promoted to the rank of major. ... Gagarin's last words before lift-off are quite remarkable - apparently he ... He was killed on a routine jet proficiency flight in March 1968.
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Human Space Flight: A Record of Achievement, 1961-1998 ...  Finally, in May 1961, Shepard became the first American in space. .... Space Center in 1973) outside Houston, Texas, took over the role of Mission Control. ..... astrophysics, man/systems studies, Comet Kohoutek observations (Skylab 4 only),...
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What is the strangest thing that an astronaut (any astronaut) ever ...  Jan 19, 2015 ... Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space said, "I don't see any God up here". He was a ... on 14 April 1961, a couple days after his historic flight, but the .... Yuri Gagarin Quotes "I could have gone on flying through space forever.".
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Gagarin Coin | eBay  10 Roubles (Russian Bimetallic Coin) - Gagarin's Space Flight (2001) (SPMD)+GIFT. $5.00 ... He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok ... Commemorative coin of the USSR! ... RARE RUSSIAN COIN * 2 RUBLES 2001 * 40th Anniversary Space Flight Gagarin * UNC ... The reverse: a portrait of Yu.
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Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space - Space.com  Jul 24, 2012 ... On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space when he launched into orbit on the ... His 108-minute flight gave him a permanent place in the history books as the first man in space. ... Over the course of 108 minutes, Vostok 1 traveled around the Earth once,...
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Today in history: Yuri Gagarin became first man in space  Apr 12, 2016 ... In 1985, Sen. Jake Garn, R-Utah, became the first sitting member of Congress to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off. In 1990, in its first...
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Alexey Leonov - Wikipedia  Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force Major general. On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity (EVA), exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk. ... He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes and nine seconds on 18 March...
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Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969 "That's one small step for man, one ...  Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969 "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. ... 51 years ago Yuri Gagarin completed an orbit of the Earth. ... In his final statements, he apologizes for the atrocities committed by the Japanese military...