The Russians responded by sending off Yuri Gagarin in 1961 to be the first man in orbit.
That was six weeks after the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin had orbited Earth.
He said the summit should occur on April 12, 2001 -- the 40th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic space flight.
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Every person in the Soviet Union went into space with Yuri Gagarin, they tore away from the earth with him.
Many more creatures soared into space in the years to come, until Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth in April 1961.
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet pilot, became the first human to travel into outer space a few years later, on April 12, 1961.
Then, in 1961, a young cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin lent his human face to a new extraterrestrial space era that threatened to leave the U.S. behind.
Then in 1961, a young cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin leant his human face to a new extraterrestrial space era that threatened to leave the U.S. behind.
When Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin traveled to outer space, he opened up a whole new age in space travel and exploration for the rest of the world.
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The early Soviet Space triumphs were managed and steered by Sergei Korolev, the man who built the R7 rocket that put Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin into orbit.
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It was fifty years ago today that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from a launch pad in the Soviet Union to bravely go where no man had gone before.
Then, three and one half years later, a young cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin leant his human face to a new extraterrestrial space era that threatened to leave the U .
But today, the demilitarized town where the first man in space Yuri Gagarin once lived, is open for business, ferrying cosmonauts and billionaires to space while also offering wild spins in a giant centrifuge to visitors who only dream of the great beyond.
Indeed, the United States could have been the first nation to successfully launch a man into space, except that while it chose to conduct those last extra safety tests, the Soviet Union sent Yuri Gagarin into orbit and the history books.
There have been many critical moments in the history of space exploration -- Sputnik in 1957, Yuri Gagarin in 1961, Neil Armstrong in 1969 -- but if you look back over the history of manned happenings outside of the atmosphere, almost all of these moments were driven by government funds.
That means Mars-bound astronauts will also have to skip out on the ground-based psychological support sessions that astronauts and cosmonauts working on the international space station routinely have just to make sure microgravity has not gone to their heads (Before Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in 1961, experts were afraid weightlessness might cause schizophrenia, explained one doctor).
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This house is an exact replica of the one where Yuri's family lived before they moved to the nearby city of Gzhatsk (now renamed Gagarin).
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