Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first man in space and the first to orbit the Earth. He also received many medals from his home country for his pioneering tour in space. Wikipedia
Gagarin asks him why, and Bykovskiy simply replies that he had nothing to say and had already had a communications session with Zarya-1. www.astronautix.com/astros/gagarin.htm
In the spaceship Vostok 1, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin orbited earth one time at an altitude of 187 3/4 miles (302 kilometers) for 108 minutes at 18,000 miles an hour. www.abamedia.com/rao/gallery/gagarin/
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Yuri Gagarin. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin
This site is wholly dedicated to one of the greatest heroes in the history of man: Yuri Gagarin, Cosmonaut of The Soviet Union. www.kosmonaut.se/gagarin/
