YURI GAGARIN
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 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.
Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded
many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's
highest honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup
crew to the Soyuz 1 mission (which ended in a fatal crash). Gagarin later
became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside
Moscow, which was later named after him. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15
training jet he was piloting crashed. The Yuri Gagarin Medal is awarded in his
honor.
Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino, near
Gzhatsk (renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death), on 9 March 1934. His parents
worked on a collective farm Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin as a carpenter and
bricklayer, and Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina as a milkmaid. Yuri was the third of
four children: older brother Valentin, older sister Zoya, and younger brother
Boris.
Like millions of people in the Soviet Union, the Gagarin
family suffered during Nazi occupation in World War II. Klushino was occupied
in November 1941 during the German advance on Moscow, and an officer took over
the Gagarin residence. The family was allowed to build a mud hut, approximately
3 by 3 metres inside, on the land behind
their house, where they spent a year and nine months until the end of the
occupation. His two older siblings were deported by the Germans to Poland for
slave labour in 1943, and did not return until after the war in 1945. In 1946,
the family moved to Gzhatsk, where Gagarin continued his secondary education.
At the age of 16 in 1950, Gagarin entered into an
apprenticeship as a foundryman at the Lyubertsy Steel Plant near Moscow, and
also enrolled at a local "young workers" school for seventh grade evening
classes. After graduating in 1951 from both the seventh grade and the
vocational school he was selected for further training at the Saratov
Industrial Technical School, where he studied tractors. While in Saratov,
Gagarin volunteered for weekend training as a Soviet air cadet at a local
flying club, where he learned to fly at
first in a biplane and later in a Yak-18 trainer. He also earned extra money as
a part-time dock laborer on the Volga River.
QUESTIONS
`1. what was the name of the spacecraft that used by Yuri Gagarin to complete the orbit of the earth?
A. Vostok-1
B. Soyuz
C. MIG-37
D. USS MISSOSOURI
E. Apollo
2. how many days did Yuri Gagarin needed to complete his orbit?
A. 2 days
B. 180 days
C. almost a year
D. less than a day
E. more than a year
3. what was the first aircraft Yuri Gagarin ever flew?
A. Yak-18 trainer
B. Vostok-1
C. MIG Hybrid Concept
D. F-14 Tomcat
E. Warthog
4. what had caused the death of Yuri Gagarin in his final time?
A. War
B. Birds
C. His mission
D. Deseases
E. MIA
5. who is the oldest brother did Yuri Gagarin had?
A. Valentin
B. Markov
C. Alexey
D. Yuri
E. Digeon
QUESTIONS
`1. what was the name of the spacecraft that used by Yuri Gagarin to complete the orbit of the earth?
A. Vostok-1
B. Soyuz
C. MIG-37
D. USS MISSOSOURI
E. Apollo
2. how many days did Yuri Gagarin needed to complete his orbit?
A. 2 days
B. 180 days
C. almost a year
D. less than a day
E. more than a year
3. what was the first aircraft Yuri Gagarin ever flew?
A. Yak-18 trainer
B. Vostok-1
C. MIG Hybrid Concept
D. F-14 Tomcat
E. Warthog
4. what had caused the death of Yuri Gagarin in his final time?
A. War
B. Birds
C. His mission
D. Deseases
E. MIA
5. who is the oldest brother did Yuri Gagarin had?
A. Valentin
B. Markov
C. Alexey
D. Yuri
E. Digeon