Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a cosmonaut. He was the first man who dared to make a journey into outer space. Gagarin was born on March 9th 1934, in a small village called Klushino, near Gzhatsk. Gagarin spent 108 minutes there in the spaceship “Vostok”, and this date became an international Cosmonautics Day. He died in 1968