Gagarin was born in 1934.April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in world history to fly to outer space [2] [3]. The launch vehicle Vostok with the Vostok-1 spacecraft carrying Gagarin was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. After 108 minutes of flight, Gagarin landed successfully in the Saratov region, not far from Engels. Starting from April 12, 1962, the day of Gagarin's flight into space was declared a holiday - the Day of Astronautics.The first space flight caused great interest around the world, and Yuri Gagarin himself became a world celebrity. At the invitation of foreign governments and public organizations, he visited about 30 countries. [4] Many of the first cosmonaut had trips and inside the Soviet Union. In subsequent years, Gagarin conducted a great public and political work, graduated from the Air Force Engineering Academy named after Professor N. Zhukovsky, worked at the Cosmonaut Training Center and was preparing for a new flight into space.On March 27, 1968, Yuri Gagarin was killed in a plane crash near the village of Novosyolovo in the Kirzhachsky district of the Vladimir region, performing a training flight on an MiG-15UTI aircraft under the guidance of an experienced instructor VS Seryogin. The causes and circumstances of the plane crash remain unclear until today. In connection with the death of Gagarin in the Soviet Union, national mourning was declared (for the first time in the history of the USSR in memory of a man who was not the head of state). In honor of the first cosmonaut of the Earth, a number of settlements were renamed (including his hometown - Gzhatsk), streets and avenues were named. In many cities around the world, many monuments were erected to Gagarin.Gagarin received awards the hero of the Soviet Union, the Orden Karl Marx, the Order of Lenin, the USSR Pilot-Cosmonaut, the Order of the Nile, etc.
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advantages and disadvantages
1space exploration 1loss of an astronaut
2development of territories 2 waste of resources on a space rocket
3fame astronaut 3 spend a lot of time in space
4knowledge of the planets
5Proof that the earth is round
6medical examination