YURI GAGARIN GTER, ES fitroma launch parin Bakonur in Kazakhstan, tandigethe Earthote do 27.000 kilometes per hour for atduration of 15 minutes The ship's flight path took it up to spare anddie the Pacific Ocean, South America, aross the equator, and theSouth Atlantic bele re-entering the Earth's atmosphere and landing aEngels. His sate retum put to rest womes that space flight ould be fatato humans and opened the doors to space TravelThe news quickly spread and the world was astonished. The SovietUnion had beaten the USA in the race to get the first man into space andYun Gagarin had become that man. The Soviet leader NikitaKhrushchev congratulated Gagarin on his achievement and sent him amessage from his Black Sea holiday home in which he said that the flightopened up a new page in the history of mankind in its conquest of space.Major Yuri Gagarin, a previously unknown army officer, instantly becamea national hero and an international icon.Today, the landing site at Engels has become a monument park at thecentre of which is a 25-meter tall sculpture of a silver metallic rocket shipand a three-meter tall statue of Yuri Gagarin. The space hero has notbeen forgotten and on the 50th anniversary of his voyage into spaceworld cosmonauts honoured the hero when the Russian, American, andItalian crew of the International Space Station sent a special videomessage to wish the people of the world a 'Happy Yuri's Night'Check these wordsSt Trom the Souton sanaman. Waior Yu Gagam."Artur er the sharest with Yann Gain as its only​