BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born to Alexy and Anna Gagarin on 9 March 1934 in Klushino, 100 miles west of Moscow in Russia (Soviet Union). Yuri spent the first seven years of his life helping his Father on their farm with his three siblings, Valentin, Zoyal and Boris. In November, 1941, the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union. The Gagarin fa,ily has to build a mud hut behind their house which they had to live in for a year and nine months after their two older children had been taken by the Nazis. The hut was only 3 by 3 meters big. Because of this, Yuri was only able to complete six grades of school. When he went to school, his favourite subjects were Maths and Physics. He left school for good at sixteen and went to work on a at the Lyubertsy steel plant near Moscow. Soon after, he was chosen for the Saratov Industrial Technical School- this is where he learned to fly. Nine years later, he married Valentina, they had two children, Yelena and Galina. Yuri Gagarin died on March 27 1968 when the Mi-15 training jet that he was piloting crashed.
CAREER IN THE AIR FORCE
In 1955, Yuri Gagarin was recommended to go to the First Chkalon Air Force Piolt's. He stayed there until he graduated. After he graduated, he was sent to the luostari air base in Murmansk Oblastnear Norway. Four years later, on the 6th November 1959, he became a senior lieutenant.
SPACE PROGRAM
The United Nations chose two hundred men who would be trained preparing them for space. However, only one person could actually go to space. Many months later, only two men were left in the process, Gherman Titov and Yuri Gagarin. They were both put through intensive training to prepare them for spaces, this training included being put in isolation for three days so that they could prepare for being lonely, while I isolation, Titov learned a whole poetry book of by heart. For the whole process, it looked as though Titiov would win until they were asked what job their fathers did. Titov said that his dad was a teacher. Gagarin said that his dad was a labourer. Just because of this, Gagarin was chosen to go to space because his father had a really hard, poorly paid job where you had to work most of the time. A few weeks later, Vostok 1 carried Yuri Gagarin into space and completed an orbit of the Earth in 108 minutes on 12th April 1961.
WHY HE WENT TO SPACE
Yuri Gagarin's older brother, Valentin, said that "Yuri always had a fascination in space and planets". When Yuri was in his fourth year at school, he was invited to join a flying school, he was so excited by this that he camped outside the airfield for the e tire summer. When he was learning to fly, he said that that was when he realised that he had potential in the air. When he was selected to trial to gointo space, he was determined to go as when he was only 23, he dreamed of being the first man in Space.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born to Alexy and Anna Gagarin on 9 March 1934 in Klushino, 100 miles west of Moscow in Russia (Soviet Union). Yuri spent the first seven years of his life helping his Father on their farm with his three siblings, Valentin, Zoyal and Boris. In November, 1941, the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union. The Gagarin fa,ily has to build a mud hut behind their house which they had to live in for a year and nine months after their two older children had been taken by the Nazis. The hut was only 3 by 3 meters big. Because of this, Yuri was only able to complete six grades of school. When he went to school, his favourite subjects were Maths and Physics. He left school for good at sixteen and went to work on a at the Lyubertsy steel plant near Moscow. Soon after, he was chosen for the Saratov Industrial Technical School- this is where he learned to fly. Nine years later, he married Valentina, they had two children, Yelena and Galina. Yuri Gagarin died on March 27 1968 when the Mi-15 training jet that he was piloting crashed.
CAREER IN THE AIR FORCE
In 1955, Yuri Gagarin was recommended to go to the First Chkalon Air Force Piolt's. He stayed there until he graduated. After he graduated, he was sent to the luostari air base in Murmansk Oblastnear Norway. Four years later, on the 6th November 1959, he became a senior lieutenant.
SPACE PROGRAM
The United Nations chose two hundred men who would be trained preparing them for space. However, only one person could actually go to space. Many months later, only two men were left in the process, Gherman Titov and Yuri Gagarin. They were both put through intensive training to prepare them for spaces, this training included being put in isolation for three days so that they could prepare for being lonely, while I isolation, Titov learned a whole poetry book of by heart. For the whole process, it looked as though Titiov would win until they were asked what job their fathers did. Titov said that his dad was a teacher. Gagarin said that his dad was a labourer. Just because of this, Gagarin was chosen to go to space because his father had a really hard, poorly paid job where you had to work most of the time. A few weeks later, Vostok 1 carried Yuri Gagarin into space and completed an orbit of the Earth in 108 minutes on 12th April 1961.
WHY HE WENT TO SPACE
Yuri Gagarin's older brother, Valentin, said that "Yuri always had a fascination in space and planets". When Yuri was in his fourth year at school, he was invited to join a flying school, he was so excited by this that he camped outside the airfield for the e tire summer. When he was learning to fly, he said that that was when he realised that he had potential in the air. When he was selected to trial to gointo space, he was determined to go as when he was only 23, he dreamed of being the first man in Space.