
“I feel fine. How about you?”
Yuri Gagarin responded to ground control
when asked 'how he was doing'
on the 12th of April 1961 he became the first human in outer space
Vostok 1 (Восто́к-1, East 1 Vostok 3KA-2) lifted off at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time
from Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Tyuratam, Kazakhstan
from Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Tyuratam, Kazakhstan