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Today Russia celebrates the 46th anniversary of the first man’s flight into space. On this day 46 years ago Major Yuriy Alexeyevich Gagarin was fired from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan, in the spaceship named “Vostok” (East). Gagarin flew round the Earth for 108 minutes at a speed of 27 000 kilometers per hour or 17 000 miles per hour, and then landed at a secret location.
The Soviet leader of that time Nikita Khruschev congratulated Major Juriy Gagarin on this achievement by sending him a message from his dacha on the Black Sea. He wrote: "The flight made by you opens up a new page in the history of mankind in its conquest of space".
The only and main radio in the Soviet Union gave all interesting details of the flight to a jubilant nation. Soviet Union won the long-lasting space race, and it was a blow to the Americans, who laid great hopes on this sphere, and longed to be the first.
Juriy Gagarin returned safe and it put an end to worries that space flights are dangerous for humans. And he become national hero, whose name nowadays is still world famous.
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