Yuri Gagarin презентация

Yuri Gagarin's Childhood
Born on March 9, 1934 in Klushino, Smolensk region.
He went to school in 1941, but because of the German occupation only 1943 continued his studies.
After moving to the city of Gzhatsk in the biography of Gagarin was finished sixth grade.
The next step in his education was admission to a vocational school.

Gagarin's Studies
The next step in his education was admission to a vocational school.
After graduating from the seventh grade, he graduated with honors from the school with a degree in mold-caster.
In August 1951 Gagarin entered the Saratov industrial College. In Saratov began his passion for aviation: he entered the Saratov flying club. In 1955 Yuri Gagarin graduated with honors from the College and made his first independent flight on the Yak-18. In total, Yuri Gagarin performed 196 flights and flew 42 hours and 23 minutes in the flying club.

How Gagarin became an astronaut
Passion for aviation continued in the army: in 1955 Gagarin was sent to study at the 1st military aviation school named after K. E.
Voroshilov in Orenburg, which he graduated with honors. After school, Gagarin served in the 169th fighter aviation regiment of the Northern fleet in Murmansk.
By 1959, when it was decided to select astronauts and prepare them for the first flight into space, the pilot Gagarin managed to fly on the MiG-15bis for a total of 265 hours.

Detachment of the first cosmonauts
In 1957, after the launch of the first satellite, Gagarin began to dream about space. In the army, he filed a report with a request to enroll him in a group of candidates for cosmonauts and in 1960 was sent to Moscow. Began numerous coaching received.

Preparation
Doctors carefully monitored the health of future astronauts

Space launch
On April 12, 1961, from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Gagarin launched on the Vostok spacecraft, made the world's first space flight, having stayed in space for 108 minutes, and safely returned to Earth.

Yuri Gagarin - the world's first cosmonaut-met the whole country and the whole world.
All magazines and Newspapers of the country wrote about Gagarin's flight

For this feat Yuri Gagarin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, and the day of the flight into space was declared a holiday - the day of Cosmonautics