Yuri Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space on April 12, 1961. He launched aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft and spent 108 minutes orbiting Earth before landing safely back on Earth, making him a hero in the Soviet Union and globally as the first person to achieve this milestone in space exploration.

1. Sergey Boyakhchyan
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2.  Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian-Soviet pilot
and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey
into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft
completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.

3.  On the morning of April 12, 1961, Soviet
cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin lifted off aboard
Vostok 1 to become the first human in
space, spending 108 minutes in orbit
before landing via parachute in the
Saratov region of the USSR.