Gagarin Yuri Alekseevich - a man who is pretty lucky. And more than once. He was born a citizen of the Soviet Union in 1934. As it turned out, it is very timely to be the first to get into space. He is one of the healthiest and best-built people in our entire country. After all, when choosing the First one, health, height, weight, age were taken into account.Gagarin is a fighter pilot, and, as is known, they selected candidates for cosmonauts from among them.And, at last, the first messenger of the Earth into unknown cosmic distances. Contact with the god Yuri could not be established.
However, the altitude record - 302 kilometers belongs to Gagarin.His way to the first space flight began in the Gzhatsky district of the Smolensk region. Then the vocational school in Lyubertsy. Specialty - moulder-foundry, fifth grade.At the same time, a school of working youth. The Industrial Technical School in Saratov and at the same time the flying club. Aviation School in Orenburg. And all with honors, with letters of commendation. In 1957, the pilot was a fighter. Since 1960, he is a communist. That's all that was "before".Most people find it difficult to determine when they approach the climax of their lives. And for many it does not happen at all.Units can be proud of two peaks, equal in value, on their life path. To them, for example, belongs O. Picard, who designed the stratosphere and set a height record on it (it was not easy to go to space!), And already in the fifties he built a bathyscaphe that broke all records to the depth of immersion in the water.The climax in Gagarin's life is known to everyone.Dawn. We do not know anything yet.The usual "The latest news" ...And he is already flying through the constellations.The earth will wake up with his name.April 12, 1961 from the Baikonur cosmodrome, took off in the air, gained the first space velocity and launched a free flight in orbit around the Earth, the world's first spacecraft "Vostok" with a man on board. And this first person was Yuri Gagarin. All radio stations of the Soviet Union work: the weight of the ship is 4725 kilograms, the angle of inclination to the equator is 65 degrees 04 ', the period of revolution around the Earth is 89.1 minutes, the cosmonaut feels well.Good! Got to land ...108 minutes went on this enchanting flight. But what minutes it is! Behind each of them stand the centuries of struggle, of labor, of searching; Hard work of thousands of the best minds of the Earth. Dreams of people about the carpet-plane, the work of Leonardo da Vinci, the death of Giordano Bruno, the laws of Newton and Einstein, the ball of the Montgolfier brothers and Mozhaisky plane, the works of Tsiolkovsky, the exploits of Chkalov, the efforts of the whole country that created miracle-rockets and miracle-ships, Stage in revealing the secrets of nature, and what stage!And it began to be fun. When the command was given to start engines, Gagarin joyfully shouted: "Well, let's go! .."