On April 12, 1961, a human went to space for the first time! Yuri Gagarin was the first Soviet cosmonaut and the first person to orbit the Earth. This was the Soviet Union's next big move in the "space race" after it launched the first...

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This video provides a detailed account of the historic space flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into space and orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961. The video covers Gagarin's background, training, the significance of his...

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Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on April 12, 1961. On the 55th anniversary of his historic flight Susan Ormiston tours Russia's formerly secret training centre.

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

A reception given by London's Lord Mayor, Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen, was one item during the feting of Yuri Gagarin. He was at the Mansion House for half an hour. At Admiralty House, he was received by the Prime Minister, and the...

""The Earth looked a delicate blue, floating in a black sky"". So said the first man in space after his fabulous journey of 108 minutes, Major Yuri Gagarin, a 27 year old Soviet Air Force Officer. ® Tracking Russian progress, stage by...

Major Gagarin, the 27-year-old Russian, who orbited the Earth in about a hundred minutes, last April, looked as pleased to arrive in Britain, as Britain was to greet him. The big welcome at London Airport was the start of his 3 day...

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Soviet airliner taxiing on runway / crowd holding posters with photographs of Yuri Gagarin / Gagarin (first man in space) descending stairs from airliner and walking on carpet / Television images of Yuri Gagarin in uniform approaching...

Newspaper with 'Reds Orbit Man' headline and photo of Yuri Gagarin as the first man in space / Yuri Gagarin in uniform walking outdoors / crowd of Soviet people looking at and photographing Yuri Gagarin walking with Nikita Khrushchev....

Yuri Gagarin is given a heroes welcome

/ Soviet propaganda film commemorating Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight - montage, cityscapes of Moscow, London, Paris and Rome, Russian watch factory / CU young woman listening to loud speaker announcing Yuri Gagarin completes...

/ Soviet propaganda film commemorating Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight - Red Square, Nikita Khrushchev and other Communist Party leaders with Yuri Gagarin with his family stand atop Lenin's Mausoleum in front of a vast cheering...

/ Soviet propaganda film commemorating Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight - Red Square, Nikita Khrushchev and other Communist Party leaders with Yuri Gagarin with his family stand atop Lenin's Mausoleum in front of a vast cheering...

/ Soviet propaganda film commemorating Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight - gala reception in the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev and other Communist Party leaders with Yuri Gagarin and his family walk up stairs to banquet hall, where...

/ Soviet propaganda film commemorating Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight - airport, crowds cheering, holding signs of Gagarin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev and other leaders of the Communist Party greet Gagarin's family...