Yuri Gagarin
The first man, who visited space.
Here is a time line of Yuri Gagarin life:
- 1934 - Was born in the village of Klushino, near Gzhatsk (renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death).
- 1955 - Gagarin was accepted to the 1st Chkalovsky Higher Air Force Pilots School, a flight school in Orenburg.
- 1957 - Gagarin was commissioned a lieutenant in the Soviet Air Forces having accumulated 166 hours and 47 minutes of flight time.
- 6 November, 1959 - Gagarin was promoted to the rank of senior lieutenant, three weeks after he was interviewed by a medical commission for qualification to the space program.
- 1960 - Gagarin began training at the Khodynka Airfield in downtown Moscow.
- 12 April, 1961 - the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Aboard was Gagarin, the first human to travel into space, using the call sign Kedr (Russian: Кедр, Siberian pine or Cedar).
- 1962 - Gagarin began serving as a deputy to the Soviet of the Union,[52] and was elected to the Central Committee of the Young Communist League.
- 1963 - Gagarin became Deputy Training Director of the Star City cosmonaut training base.
- 1968 - Gagarin successfully defended his aerospace engineering thesis on the subject of spaceplane aerodynamic configuration and graduated cum laude from Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy.
- 27 March, 1968 - while on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base, Gagarin and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died when their MiG-15UTI crashed near the town of Kirzhach.
" Jura is the personification of the eternal youth of our people. It happily combines natural courage, an analytical mind, exceptional diligence. Yes, Yuri Gagarin was a real Russian guy - honest, conscientious, who value his good name. The main thing in his character, in my opinion, was cheerfulness and vitality. "
-- Sergey Pavlovich Korolev