Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (09.03.1934 — 27.03.1968) was a 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.
April 12, 2021, marked the 60th anniversary of the first human flight into space. The name of Yuri Gagarin became known throughout the world. Almost everything has been told about him and his space flight. Even information previously secret has become public.
On April, 12 State polytechnic museum at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv polytechnic institute had a round table meeting devoted to 56th anniversary of a flight of first Earth astronaut Yurii Haharin.
On April, 12th the round table devoted to the 55th anniversary of Yu. O. Gagarin’s space flight and the development of rocket-space potential of Ukraine took place in the Academic Board Hall of NTUU ‘KPI’.
If in the USSR determined, as today, the most popular, the most attractive and, in general, the most- most... people, during many years out of competition would be there among them, certainly, the first cosmonaut of planet Yurij Gagarin.
April 12, 1961 Soviet citizen Yuri Gagarin on the spaceship "Vostok" for the first time in human history has made space flight. The news of this event immediately spread through the entire planet.
Launch site The Kapustyn Yar can be considered as the cradle of the Soviet Rocket Forces. You will learn about the history of its creation, formation and development, about the city and the people who dedicated their lives to testing of missile technology