Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin March 9 1934 – 27 March 1968 was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
On that day in 1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin left on the way to the launch pad became the first human in space making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft
