Tech & Science Space exploration Computers Space Russia Sixty years ago today, on April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history by becoming the first human to travel into space . Credit: Getty Images It’s been 60 years, to the day, since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first … … Gagarin and Seryogin were buried in the walls of Red Square in the Kremlin. Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space and the first in Earth orbit, on Vostok 1. 18 March 1965 And all this is despite the fact that the story of the first … On April 12, 1961, the rocket lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome. First Man in Space. ‘It was ironic that, after facing the immense hazards of the first-ever space flight, he should have been killed, in 1968, in an air crash on earth’, writes Robin Kerrod in the Concise Encylopedia of Science. The Soviet Union- and the entire world- mourned. > First Spaceman - YURI GAGARIN > Vostok 1 ~ 12 April 1961 > First Space Women - VALENTINE TERESHKOVA ~ 16 June 1963 > First Spaceman Walk - ALEXIA KEONOV ~ 18 March 1965 > "The Chief Designer" - SERGEI KOROLEV ~ 1907~1965 Yes, we all know APOLLO 13 with Tom Hank !!! Neil Armstrong was the first to step on the MOON! 17 July 1962 or 19 July 1963 Either Robert M. White or Joseph A. Walker (depending on the definition of the space border) was the first to pilot a spaceplane, the North American X-15, on 17 July 1962 (White) or 19 July 1963 (Walker). Today Gagarin's name is cemented in the record books, and he instantly became a national hero across the Soviet Union. "Gagarin was very charismatic and well liked within the cosmonaut corps," says Howard McCurdy, a space policy expert and public affairs professor at American University. On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) made the first … On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. Gagarin: First in Space”) “The filmmakers of “Gagarin” managed to do next to impossible: they made the audience worry about and go through the fate of the first cosmonaut, to applaud “Vostok” spaceship taking off and safe landing in a field near Saratov. The mannequin, jokingly called Ivan Ivanovich, and a dog called Zvezdochka, performed their first space flight on 21 March 1961, paving the way for the triumph of Yuri Gagarin's historic mission. Just minutes later, the former farm boy was the first human in space. Presented as a triumph of the fiercely fought Space … Yuri Gagarin, First Human in Space. On the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first orbit, watch video by a modern astronaut that re-creates what Gagarin saw in 1961. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space.