Vostok 1 - First Human Spaceflight

The Vostok 3KA  Spacecraft was launched on April 12, 1961 from Baikonur Cosmodrome which took Yiri Gagarin , a Soviet Union Cosmonaut, into space and made history that for the first time that a human entered Outer Space, as well as the first Orbital Flight  of a Manned Vehicle.

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 Vostok 1 was launched by the Soviet Space Program and was designed by Soviet engineers guided by Sergei Korolev  under the supervision of Kerim Kerimov  and others

 The Spaceflight consisted of a Single Orbit of the Earth (to this date the shortest orbital manned spaceflight).27 year-old Yuri Gagarin was the only crew member of Vostok 1

The spaceflight took 108 minutes from launch to landing. As planned,Yuri Gagarin landed separately from his spacecraft, having ejected with a parachute 7 km (23,000 ft) above ground

  
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin( March 09, 1934 – March 27, 1968) was a Soviet Pilot and cosmonaut  and Vostok-1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1(launched into orbit on April 23, 1967 carrying Soviet Cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komaraov who was killed when the spacecraft crashed during its return to Earth)
Yuri Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow which was later named after him. Yuri Gagarin died  when the MiG 15 training jet he was piloting crashed in 1968.

50th Anniversary(1961-2011)on first human spaceflight