What in space was Yuri Gagarin, first man in extraterrestrial space?And if he was really the first?And makes the flight whether they really?
April 12, 1961
This date is always the consciousness of earthlings divided into "before" and "after."Until that day, the people never left Earth, did not see it from space, and many did not think possible.But Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut in history, in fact, proved the opposite.
on "Vostok-1", he circled around the Earth two hundred and forty thousand kilometers, landing by parachute from a height of seven kilometers.Take-off, he was in the rank of lieutenant, but after the flight he was promoted to the Major immediately.What in space was Yuri Gagarin, having to make the world a fantastic career?The flight lasted a little longer, but went down in history by making the first cosmonaut known.
all subsequent flights were events of global significance, but such resonance is no longer received.
«Vostok-1»
first spacecraft earthlings with a man on board named "East".He did not disappoint anyone, and the first astronaut returned to Earth safe and sound.The ship had a diameter of nearly two and a half meters long - about four and a half meters (so the astronauts were selected candidates does not exceed one hundred and seventy centimeters), weighing 4.37 tons and has the ability to manually control.
Until a short time as Gagarin spent in space, "East" had several predecessors.Seven units called "Sputnik" tested in the hard mode.Some of them were wrecked, due to which the possibility of finding human remains in the space in question.
But in the end all the obstacles were overcome, and the time of Gagarin in space came to visit.
April 12, 1961 at 9:07 from the cosmodrome "Baikonur" has started "Vostok".
Flight
first man circled around the Earth was not entirely perfect.It was recently made public that during it there were eleven emergency situations.
One of them occurred during the return to the planet.Before entering into the atmosphere have been problems that the cosmonaut himself then called "abnormal situation", so as not to frighten the Queen.In fact, the ship randomly spun ten minutes, as desired compartment not disconnected.This was already in the atmosphere, and Gagarin saw the melted metal behind the glass window (the temperature there reaches from three to five thousand degrees).But thanks to the courage of the future of the Hero of the Soviet Union it was overcome, and he arrived on Earth.
as much time as in space was Yuri Gagarin, all the astronauts in the future will hold more than once.But he was the first.And what will be there, how to behave in people, at that time no one knew.However, Yury coped with the task, and the world were waiting for him honors and recognition on a planetary scale.
What in space was Yuri Gagarin? What happened to him after the flight?
How Gagarin spent in space - it is known.At the age of twenty-seven years, he made the first manned space flight, which lasted only one hundred and eight minutes.
What was his life "after"?He became a Hero of the Soviet Union and received the Order of Lenin.I visited many countries where it is eagerly awaited, made an honorary member of different societies and awards.He began to lead an active social life, but despite the fame and adulation again sought to return to flight.
Yuri Gagarin was killed in the air, fighter aircraft, along with his instructor Vladimir Sergeyevich Seregin, twenty-seventh of March 1968, two years after the death of the legendary Sergei Korolev.In the pocket of his jacket, among other things was a photograph of the designer.Gagarin was just 34 years old.
rumors about flying "before" and "after»
While in the Soviet Union, admired the first person to conquer space in the Western media appeared information that before Gagarin into space were people who, apparently,died.
In 1957, 1958 and 1959 were made attempts to launch a man into space, but they ended tragically.In 1960, another attempt at a capsule with a man allegedly flew into a cosmic abyss.In early 1961 a Soviet satellite broadcast the human heart that has stopped.
also rumored that the fall of 1961, has been committed group flight with a tragic outcome.At the end of 1962 the Italian hams caught signals, as they said, the dying ship.
about Gagarin said that he did not actually orbited the Earth.For him, it made a few days earlier another astronaut, who looked after the flight so bad that it has been decided not to show the world.Therefore take cheerful guy and faked flight.
Denial
However, cosmonaut Grechko completely denied rumors of human sacrifices, not the press.Before Gagarin's space sent dummies, two of which were built with the tape recordings of words.Cassette during the flight included, and hams, catching, as they believed, talk, draw their own conclusions.To the official at the time have been reported, and started rumors.
