fIrSt HuMaN fLiGhtS....SpACe eXpLoRAtioN....

Did you know this guy???..The first human spaceflight was Vostok 1 carrying 27 year old man,Yurin Gagarin on April 12, 1961.The spacecraft had completed one orbit around the globe, lasting about 1 hour and 48 minutes.

And this had opened an entirely new era in space exploration namely human spaceflight. Within a month of Gagarin’s flight, the United States of America first launched a person into space with the first Mercury flight, by Alan Shepard. However, orbital flight was not achieved by the United States until John Glenn’s flight February 20, 1962.

Here are the some important names :-
-Apollo 11 craft(first Moon landing by the
American on July 20, 1969

-Salyut 1(first space station launched by soviets in
1971).

-Sputnik1(first orbital flight launched on October 4,
1957).

-Explorer 1(orbital flight successfully launched on
January 31, 1958).

-Soviet dog Laika(the first animal in orbit on
November 3, 1957).

-Vostok 1(the first human spaceflight launched on
April 12, 1961).