Yuri Gagarin: first human in space
1961 · Event
Vostok 1 makes Gagarin the first person to orbit the Earth.
On these timelines: The Space Race, Master, Russia & the USSR, Spaceflight, Cold War
More from The Space Race
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- Apollo program announcement (1961)
- Kennedy's 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech (1962)
- 'One small step': the Moonwalk broadcast (1969)
- Apollo 17 leaves the Moon (1972)
- Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous in orbit (1965)
- Apollo 1 fire (1967)
Around 1961
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- The Troubles (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- The Beatles (1960)