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3 days ago · Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin—the first man in the outer space.. The Soviet space program (Russian: Космическая программа СССР, romanized: Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR) was the national space program of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), active from 1955 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
- 1955–1991
- Vostok 1, (12 April 1961)
- December 25, 1991
- Sputnik 1, (4 October 1957)
2 days ago · On April 12, 1961, the USSR opened the era of crewed spaceflight, with the flight of the first cosmonaut (Russian name for space travelers), Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin's flight, part of the Soviet Vostok space exploration program, took 108 minutes and consisted of a single orbit of the Earth.
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3 days ago · Roscosmos is headquartered in Moscow, with its main Mission Control Center in the nearby city of Korolyov, and the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center located in Star City in Moscow Oblast. Its launch facilities include Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan , the world's first and largest spaceport, and Vostochny Cosmodrome , which is being ...
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- Russia
- 25 February 1992; 31 years ago, (as the Russian Federal Space Agency)
2 days ago · Shortly before the first launch of the Vostok-1 spacecraft, Yuri Gagarin was chosen as the mission’s pilot. The first alternate was the Russian German Titov, and the second was the Crimean Hryhoriy Nelyubov. Hryhoriy Nelyubov was born on March 31, 1934 in the Crimean village of Porfiryivka. He developed an interest in space from an early age.
1 day ago · Pavlo Popovych first ascended above the atmosphere on 12 August 1962, after Andriyan Nikolaev had stayed in space for almost a day and night. Prior to that, only four people had ever been in Earth orbit: Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and German Titov, and American astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.
Yuri Gargarin, a Soviet, was the first human to go to space. It happened in 1961 and this is a recording of what he said about it. Reply reply More replies
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