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He was not one of ours â if by âoursâ you mean an American but the further we go out in space, the less earthly distinctions like nationality will matter.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian â a Soviet in the parlance of the time â and 60 years ago today he became the first human being in space.
That is an achievement we should salute no matter what country he hailed from or what political system he gave his allegiance to.
We Americans have grown up idolizing our own heroes, as we should.
Tom Wolfe, a Richmonder who graduated from Washington and Lee University, gave us âThe Right Stuff,â and then Hollywood gave us a movie.
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. Learn more about Gagarin in this article.
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For many decades, humanity has dreamed of conquering space. And the first person who managed to take a step towards the endless starry space was Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.
The USSR and the United States almost simultaneously began to develop space exploration projects in the second half of the 1950s. The “father” of the Soviet program was Sergei P. Korolev, the pioneer of practical cosmonautics who coordinated the work of a myriad of outstanding engineers and innovators: Vladimir P. Barmin, Valentin P. Glushko, Nikolai A. Pilyugin, Vladimir N. Chelomey, Mikhail K. Yangel and others.
After the Soviet Union successfully launched the first artificial Earth satellite on October 4, 1957, preparations for sending a man into space were put on the agenda. Out of more than 3,000 candidates, a special commission selected 20 people who became members of the First Cosmonaut Team in the first half of 1960. Many of them later went down in the history
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