r7_gagarin

I am Yuri Gagarin and I was born on the 9th March 1934, I was a Russian cosmonaut and pilot. I was born in the village of Klushino. My mother was an avid reader and my father a skilled carpenter. My achievement was that I was the first person to orbit the Earth and the first into space on 12 April 1961. I famously said the words “The Earth is blue. How wonderful .It is amazing.” I should stay in the balloon because I opened up new horizons for space exploration. I also enabled future astronauts to explore and discover more, and the people of the world to see the wonders of space. I then toured the world to promote this Soviet achievement. I died on 27th March 1968, when my MiG 15‘s cabin air vent was left open. This deprived me and my training instructor of oxygen and disabled the aircraft. My ashes were buried in the walls of the Kremlin, Red Square, Moscow. A town near to Klushino was renamed Gagarin in my honour. media type="youtube" key="J2C1FkPz5vU&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"