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Yuri Gagarin, a MajorMakes the Flight in
5 - Ton Vehicle
Text of the Tass statement
is printed on Page 22
By PressInternational.
MOSCOW , Wednesday, Apr12 The SovietUnionannouncetoday it had won the race
put a man into space. T
official press agency, Tass,a man had orbited the earth in
spaceshipand had been broughback alive and safe.
A brief announcement
the first reported space maihad landed in what wasscribed as the " prescribecarea " the Soviet Union after
a historic flight.A radio announce
broke into a program andinemotional tones :
Russia has successful
launched a man into space.name is Yuri Gagarin He waslaunched in a sputnik nameVostok, which means " East."
Reports on Landing
Tass said that, on landing
Major Gagarin said : "
report to the party and Govern
ment, and personally to Nikita
Sergyevich Khrushchev thathe landing was normal, If
well have no injuries
bruises."
He landed at 10:55 A.
Moscow time A. M.
York time ].
Earlier, the major reported:" Flight proceeding normal
ly, I feel well."After orbiting the earth
major applied a braking device.and the vehicle space landed
the Soviet Union , Tass said .
Major Gagarin , 27 years oldis an industrial technician , andmarried He was reported
have received pre- flight traininsimilar to that of the astronautswho will man United States
first space ships.Soared to 187 Miles
The announcer said the Sputnik reached a minimum altitude
175 kilometers (and a maximum altitude of 302kilometers ( 18734 miles ).
He the weight of theSputnik was 10,395 ,
slightly over five tons.
The announcement of the
launching came at 2 A. M. NewYork time.
It said everything functioned
normally during the flightConstant radio contact was
maintained between earth and
the sputnik , the Moscow radiosaid.
The announcer said the duration of each revolution aroundthe earth was 89.1 minutes,
The title of the announcement
was "The First Human Flightinto the Cosmos ."
The radio, which was quotinga Tass press agency statement
on the launching, said that Maj.
ContinuedonPage22, Column
TheNewYork TimesPublished: April 12, 1961
Copyright © The New York Times
POLARIS
ALASKA
Russians Succeed in Orbiting an Astronaut and Returning Him Safely to Earth
SOVIET IN TOUCH Daily WorkerWITH SPACE MAN
Leningrad THE FIRST MAN IN SPACEalive suffering from
B of his
Soviet earth
Successful Launching Yuri
Gagarin in ' East' Sputnik
Announced in
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The New York April 12PROBABLE TRACK : Reported pathof astronaut's flight from launch site atTyura Tam .
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AN EARLY STORY : Partof the front page of today's Daily Worker of London . TheCommunist paper appeared hours before the official announcement from Moscow .
Continued From Page 1, Col.
Gagarin is feeling well andthat " conditions in the cabin arenormal."
As soon as the Moscow announcement was made,Russiansbegan to telephone congratulations to each other
Thefirst astronaut is a majorthe Soviet Air Force and is
believed to be a test pilot.The Tass announcement said
that the launching of the multistage space rocket, which carried the Sputnik into orbit , wassuccessful
After attaining the first escape velocity, itsaid, and theseparation of the last stage ofthe carrier rocket, the spaceship went into free flight on around-the -earth orbit.
Reports of the launching ofSoviet space man had been
reported repeatedly in Moscowfor the last twenty - four hours.
The London Daily Workerand other sources had said theSoviet Union had sent a man
into space last Friday and had
brought him back aliveMany persons in Moscow
were convinced after today'sannouncement that another
flight into space was attempted on Friday and there wasspeculation that somethingmight have gone wrong.
The announcement of thefirst flight into space was repeated three times ,after which
normal radio program ofmusic was resumed .
The radio also broadcast patriotic songs.
The announcement said the
condition of the navigator wasbeing observed by means of
radio telemetering devices andtelevision .
Major Gagarin , the announcement went on withstood satisfactorily the placing of thesatellite ship into orbit .He's ' You Gah -GAH -Rin
The Soviet Union's man inspace is Maj. Yuri Gagarinpronounced You'ree Gah-GAHrin with the acent on the second syllable of his last name.The New York of Tassofficial Soviet news agency ,gave the pronunciation of hisname.
Sovfoto
FIRST CREATURE TO ORBIT EARTH sentup by Soviet Union on Nov. 3 , 1957. She lived abouta week . The satellite disintegrated after five months .
UnitedPressInternational
SOVIET SPACE SUIT : This official photograph, released in 1958, shows a Soviet
astronauttestingequipmentdesignedto be usedon rocketflights beyondthe atmosphere.
The York TimesPublished : April 12 1961
Copyright © The New York Times
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