YURI GAGARIN / FIRST INTO SPACE
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) was the first human being to travel in space when he successfully completed a single orbit in a one-man space capsule, Vostok I. The carpenter, Gagarin joined the Soviet Air Force in 1955. Two years later his country, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, launched Sputnik, the world's first son of communications satellite. Gagarin's historic spaceflight took place Kazakhstan, his craft reached a April 12, 1961. Launched from speed of 17,000 miles an hour and a distance of 187 miles above Earth. Vosk I orbited Earth once; the flight lasted 108 minutes. Although Gagarin was scheduled for further spaceflights, he died in a jet crash in on 1968. His Russian birthplace now bears his name .
FAST FACT: At its peak, some 400,000 people worked on the Apollo project, at NASA headquarters and elsewhere .
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