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Yuri Gagarin was born -
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He enrolled in Saratov industrial technical school -
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Graduated from Saratov Industrial technical school -
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Yuri was drafted into the Soviet Army, and sent to the first Chkalov Air force pilot school -
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Sputnik 1 launched into orbit by the Soviet Union -
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Became lieutenant in the soviet air forces -
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Yuri was selected to be a part of the Soviet Space Program along with 19 other pilots -
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Trained for 3 hours on manual landing -
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Vostok 3kA-3 also known as the Vostok 1 was the spacecraft that Gagarin took to space. He was the first human to go to space and the first to orbit earth as well -
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Celebration dinner -
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Gagarin is on the cover of Time Magazine -
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Awarded the British Interplanetary Society gold medal. -
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Became the Lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Forces -
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He became the deputy training director of the Star City Cosmonaut training base -
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Died in jet crash with his flight director Vladimir Seryogin