It has been 60 years since a person flew for the first time in space. Yuri Gagarin made the historical event possible. A description about Cosmonaut almost stopped the incident.

Will be on april 12 Russia Celebrated as Space Travel Day, in 2011 the United Nations also declared it as International Manned Space Travel Day. Russia is celebrating the 60th anniversary with the opening of a park named after Gagarin near the city of Engels in the Saratov region on the exhibitions and the Volga. Cosmonaut landed there after returning from space.

You can watch the historical recording of the first manned flight into space in the video or above Here. It also tells you the political circumstances of historiography and why Gagarin was actually considered unsuitable for it.

Yuri Gagarin will turn 87 today. He died on March 27, 1968 at the age of 34 when a fighter plane crashed near Moscow. Many legends surround his death to this day, as the state of the accident remained a secret for a long time. Gagarin’s urn was buried in the Kremlin wall during a state ceremony. Roskosmos boss Dimitri Rogozin laid flowers there with a delegation on Monday. He spoke of a national holiday for Russia. Space travel is still a high priority in this vast empire.