Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) after flying a plane. Gagarin made the first manned space flight on 12th April 1961. He orbited the Earth on

---

Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) after flying a plane. Gagarin made the first manned space flight on 12th April 1961. He orbited the Earth once in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, a flight that lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes. He later returned to active service as a test pilot, dying in a crash during a training flight in 1968.

---

Size: 2650px × 3543px
Photo credit: © DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1, 1900s, 1961, 20th, adult, astronaut, black, black--white, caucasian, century, cosmonaut, flight, gagarin, hat, historical, history, human, male, man, manned, monochrome, outdoors, people, person, pilot, pioneer, pioneering, portrait, program, programme, race, russia, russian, sepia, smile, smiling, soviet, space, space-flight, space-race, spaceflight, surname, union, ussr, vostok, white, yuri, yury