Gagarin's orbit in Vostok 1. Orbital flightpath (red,on a map of the Earth) of the Vostok 1 spacecraft (upper left,call sign KEDR) that carried Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) around the globe as the first human in space. Gagarin's historic flight took place on 12 April 1961 and lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes. The events labelled here include: launch (Baikonur) and landing (near Saratov),orbital injection,radio contacts (Z1,Z2 and Z3),radio communications,and loss of contact. The flight times are in Western European Time. Retrofire and re-entry took place over Africa,and included problems with descent module separation (yellow line) | |
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