Yuri Gagarin, First Human in Space (1961)

DEC 19 2017 · 12:00

Please consider supporting our videos on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/simplehistory At age 27 on the morning of 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was helped into his spacesuit and made his way to the launch pad. He climbed into the Vostok spacecraft, wondering if he would return back to e