Yuri Gagarin ...explained at the Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow! Who was Yuri Gagarin? On the 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin strapped himself into a rocket launcher, and became the first human to leave earth and enter space... as you do. ⬇️ More info below ⬇️

- Yuri Gagarin was the outstanding candidate amongst the Soviet pilots chosen to enter space.
- Yuri Gagarin, strapped in the Vostok 1 spaceship, famously shouts at the moment of lift-off, "poyekhali", meaning "let's go".
- Yuri Gagarin spends 108 minutes orbiting the earth, saying "I see Earth. It is so beautiful".
- Yuri Gagarin descends in his re-entry capsule known as Little Ball, and parachutes into a Russian field to the shock of a local farmer.
- Yuri Gagarin immediately becomes an international celebrity, with one commentator summing up, "His smile lit up the darkness of the Cold War".

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