FIRST ASTRONAUT

WHO WAS THE FIRST ASTRONAUT?

The first astronaut was Yuri Gagarin a Russian airman. He made one orbit of the Earth aboard the Vostok spacecraft on the 12th April 1961. The whole spaceflight lasted about 89 minutes. 

After his first ever spaceflight, Gagarin recalled his experience of his spaceflight by saying "The feeling of weightlessness was somewhat unfamiliar compared with Earth conditions. Here, you feel as if you were hanging in a horizontal position in straps. You feel as if you are suspended"

Sadly, Yuri Gagarin lost his life on the 27th March 1968, while on a routine training flight with flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin they crashed near a town called Kirzhach and died instantly.