World's 1st
manned space flight.World's 1st
manned space flight.
It orbited the
earth one time
Launched by
(former) USSR on April 12, 1961.
Pilot was Yuri
Gagarin.
The spacecraft
weighed 5 tons
Command module
was only 7.5 feet in diameter, but weighed 2.4 tons
To land, pilots
bailed out of capsule at 20,000 feet, and parachuted to Earth.
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