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10 fun facts about 1st man in space Gagarin
RT, 11 Apr, 2016
On April 12 Russia marks 55 years since cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin set off on his mission and became the first man in space. Yuri Gagarin was born in Klushino, in the Smolensk Oblast which is in Russia.
10 facts about the legend behind the man.
1) Let's Go
"Poyekhali!" ("Let's go!") was Gagarin's iconic phrase at take-off from the Baikonur cosmodrome on April 12, 1966, when he became the first man to travel to space. However, according to protocol he was meant to say "Crew, taking off!" His informal approach signalled the beginning of the Space Age in human history.
2) The letter
Before his space flight, Gagarin wrote a farewell letter to his wife and daughters. Luckily his safe return meant that the letter was of no use. However, seven years later Gagarin's wife, Valentina, had to open it when Yuri lost his life during a routine training flight in a fighter jet.
3) Collectors’ items
The Vostok 3KA-2 Spaceship Capsule was sold at a Sotheby's auction five years ago on April 12, 2011, for US$2,882,500. This is the only Vostok spaceship outside of Russia and the only one in private hands; all other surviving Vostok capsules are in permanent Russian museum collections.
4) Prized underwear
For his bravery Gagarin received many perks from the Soviet government, including an apartment and a car. But the list was so detailed that every single item was on protocol, such as "six pairs of silk undergarments" and "six pairs of socks."
5) Are you for real?
When Gagarin flew to Moscow to meet then-leader Nikita Khrushchev, the crowds of journalists and officials were stunned that he was a regular person because of one small detail: his shoe laces were untied.
6) Love hurts
The scar on Gagarin's brow has become a fruitful source of myths and tales of love, violence, bravery and whatnot. It seems, however, that he earned it when he was caught by his wife in a room with another woman, a nurse named Anna who had aided him after a boating incident earlier in the day, at a Black Sea resort in September 1961. He attempted to escape by jumping out of the window, which resulted in him hitting his face hard on a kerbstone.
7) Kremlin tomb
Gagarin and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died in a MiG-15UTI crash near the town of Kirzhach. Their bodies were cremated and the ashes were buried in the walls of the Kremlin on Moscow's Red Square.
8) Gagarin had 2 daughters
His elder daughter Yelena Gagarina (in the photo) is an art historian who has worked as the director-general of the Moscow Kremlin Museums since 2001, and his younger daughter, Galina Gagarina, is department chair and a professor of economics at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Moscow.
9) Hometown honor
Yuri's hometown, Gzhatsk, was renamed after him when he died in 1968. It's now called Gagarin. The house in the photo is where Gagarin lived during his school years.
10) Cosmonautics Day
The day when Gagarin committed the first manned flight into space has become widely celebrated in Russia as Cosmonautics Day – in 2011, April 12 was declared International Day of Human Space Flight by 60 countries at a UN General Assembly.
10 fun facts about 1st man in space GagarinRT, 11 Apr, 2016
On April 12 Russia marks 55 years since cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin set off on his mission and became the first man in space. Yuri Gagarin was born in Klushino, in the Smolensk Oblast which is in Russia.
10 facts about the legend behind the man.
1) Let's Go
"Poyekhali!" ("Let's go!") was Gagarin's iconic phrase at take-off from the Baikonur cosmodrome on April 12, 1966, when he became the first man to travel to space. However, according to protocol he was meant to say "Crew, taking off!" His informal approach signalled the beginning of the Space Age in human history.
Before his space flight, Gagarin wrote a farewell letter to his wife and daughters. Luckily his safe return meant that the letter was of no use. However, seven years later Gagarin's wife, Valentina, had to open it when Yuri lost his life during a routine training flight in a fighter jet.
3) Collectors’ items
The Vostok 3KA-2 Spaceship Capsule was sold at a Sotheby's auction five years ago on April 12, 2011, for US$2,882,500. This is the only Vostok spaceship outside of Russia and the only one in private hands; all other surviving Vostok capsules are in permanent Russian museum collections.
4) Prized underwear
For his bravery Gagarin received many perks from the Soviet government, including an apartment and a car. But the list was so detailed that every single item was on protocol, such as "six pairs of silk undergarments" and "six pairs of socks."
5) Are you for real?
When Gagarin flew to Moscow to meet then-leader Nikita Khrushchev, the crowds of journalists and officials were stunned that he was a regular person because of one small detail: his shoe laces were untied.
6) Love hurts
The scar on Gagarin's brow has become a fruitful source of myths and tales of love, violence, bravery and whatnot. It seems, however, that he earned it when he was caught by his wife in a room with another woman, a nurse named Anna who had aided him after a boating incident earlier in the day, at a Black Sea resort in September 1961. He attempted to escape by jumping out of the window, which resulted in him hitting his face hard on a kerbstone.
7) Kremlin tomb
Gagarin and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died in a MiG-15UTI crash near the town of Kirzhach. Their bodies were cremated and the ashes were buried in the walls of the Kremlin on Moscow's Red Square.
8) Gagarin had 2 daughters
His elder daughter Yelena Gagarina (in the photo) is an art historian who has worked as the director-general of the Moscow Kremlin Museums since 2001, and his younger daughter, Galina Gagarina, is department chair and a professor of economics at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Moscow.
9) Hometown honor
Yuri's hometown, Gzhatsk, was renamed after him when he died in 1968. It's now called Gagarin. The house in the photo is where Gagarin lived during his school years.
10) Cosmonautics Day
The day when Gagarin committed the first manned flight into space has become widely celebrated in Russia as Cosmonautics Day – in 2011, April 12 was declared International Day of Human Space Flight by 60 countries at a UN General Assembly.
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