Have Soviet astronauts really been to space?

It is an ironclad fact that the Soviet Union sent astronauts into space. The 1 th astronaut in the world is not an American, but a Soviet, named Gagarin. In the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union began an arms race. The Soviet Union was aggressive in the Cold War contest with the United States in the middle and late 1950s, especially under the leadership of korolev, the chief designer of its aerospace industry. It was ahead of the United States not only in the design and development of intercontinental missiles, but also in the field of rocket and satellite research.

The Soviet Union launched a satellite in 1957 and sent a dog named Lycra into space. It successfully survived in space for 6 days, setting a record for the longest living time of creatures in space for the first time. Since 1959, Korolev has been actively preparing for manned space test. 1 961On April 8th, yuri gagarin was directly elected as the1astronaut in the space history of the Soviet Union because of his overall performance ranking first in the space training stage.

196 1 12 On the morning of April, the Dongfang 1 spacecraft, which was improved three times, was successfully launched from Baikonur by the r7 rocket which was very mature in korolev. Gagarin, who entered the spaceship, bid farewell to korolev and others in a very relaxed tone and said one of the most famous words, Let's go, dear friends. See you later. It marks the beginning of the history of human manned space flight. The separation system of the rocket is very smooth. The second stage of the rocket sent the spacecraft into earth orbit and began to separate. The spaceship spun and stayed in space for 108 minutes. After that, the spacecraft began to descend sharply from Kazakhstan. At 7000 meters above the ground, Gagarin started the ejection system. He descended from the sky with a parachute. Gagarin became the 1 th human in space, which will go down in history forever. This is beyond dispute.

After that, Soviet astronauts completed the first 24-hour flight around the earth, the first joint flight of two spaceships, the take-off of the 1 th female astronaut and the first spacewalk. The Soviet Union has achieved great success in aerospace, surpassing the United States and making the United States daunting.