US EditionFirst Human In Space: Everything About Major Yuri Gagarin And Vostok 1
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Published on: 12.04.2026 10:00Author: Christoph Otto65 years ago, Juri Gagarin was the first person to fly into space. With a probability of survival of less than 50 percent, the 27-year-old cosmonaut launched from Baikonur on 12 April 1961. His mission changed the history of space travel – but Gagarin paid a high price for his hero status.
First Human In Space: Everything About Major Yuri Gagarin And Vostok 1
Yuri Gagarin was born in Klushino, a village in Smolensk Oblast, Russia. His father, Aleksey Ivanovich Gagarin, was a carpenter, and his mother, Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina, was a dairy farmer. Yuri was the third of four children. Gagarin worked as a foundryman at a steel plant in Lyubertsy in his youth. Yuri later joined the Soviet Air Force as a pilot and was stationed at the Luostari Air Base.
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