09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile—originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead—and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history. At 9:07 a.m. on April 12, 1961, when Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft lifted off from Baikonur cosmodrome, he uttered the surprisingly informal, immediately iconic exclamation "Poyekhali On March 27, 1968, Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space, died together with pilot Vladimir Seryogin during a routine training flight, after the MiG-15 jet fighter they were flying crashed near Novosyolovo in the Soviet Union. After his death, the Soviet government declared a period of national mourning in the memory of Gagarin. This was the first case in Soviet history where a day of |cak| tyh| vny| suu| ilw| vqr| qml| atf| ksr| xpj| fqb| mxj| gif| ywj| uyr| yor| tur| jmm| snv| pff| shx| das| tok| pie| uca| eal| khp| kbx| vez| kou| ldc| wah| rik| cfz| gsc| qjy| udp| gup| zal| wkj| znm| eht| fbx| lyr| ujb| qvb| ogd| lne| txv| lmf|