Yuri Gagarin: Still a hero after 60 years

60 years after Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel into space, Russia still hails the man who became a national hero.

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[robbiethepict]

His first words from space was "I can see it all...it's beautiful".

[WorkingMan]

A grear man and hero of a once great nation

[japutaruko]

Why the negative bitterness of the USA? This monumental flight is not about Russians beating the USA, its about the historic day when humanity finally went to space. The USA should stop being salty that the Russians beat them first this is all about humanity as a whole. Its been 60 years and still the Americans are bitter, let it go and think that humanity has benefitted greatly with this accomplishment.

[statistic]

*Gagarin.* Hero of TASS.

On April 12, 1961, according to *the only report* TASS, which has not yet *been confirmed by other sources, * including foreign media, the Vostok-1 orbital ship, which Gagarin was on board, was launched from Baikonur. After 108 minutes of flight, cosmonaut Gagarin landed in the Saratov region, not far from the city of Engels *BY PARACHUTE separately from the capsule (its location is unknown)* and went to the nearest state farm *to make intercity calls.*

Neither before this flight, nor after *did any cosmonauts land on a separate parachute, or on the territories of suburban state farms* and did not contact the mission control center by *a wire phone from the landing site.*

*Three weeks later.*
On May 5, 1961, the Redstone 3 launch vehicle launched the Mercury-Redstone 3 capsule spacecraft with the American astronaut, Alan Shepard (November 18, 1923 - July 21, 1998) to a ballistic trajectory and an altitude of approximately 186.5 kilometers, after which it landed in the waters of the US Atlantic missile range 486 kilometers from the launch point. The flight lasted 15 minutes 28 seconds. *Millions of people watched the live broadcast* of the first American astronaut flying into space.

March 27, 1968 *Gagarin died in a plane crash* near the village of Novoselovo, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Region, while performing a training flight on a MiG-15 aircraft under the guidance of an experienced instructor Seregin. *The circumstances of this crash remain unclear to this day.*

[Jacob-syxm]

In US a criminal that threatens a pregnant woman is a hero