Your birth year
2006
Yuri Gagarin Orbits Earth
1961Space
Yuri Gagarin Orbits Earth is 45 years older than you
It's from 1961, before you were born.
- Flight
- 1961
- Cosmonaut
- Yuri Gagarin
- Cosmonaut age
- 27
About
As of 2026, it's 65 years old.
Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth in 1961, making human spaceflight real.
The mission changed the scale of human travel: one person went from the ground to orbit and back in a single flight.
Yuri Gagarin Orbits Earth through the years
1961
1961
First human orbital flight
Gagarin flew aboard Vostok 1.
You were born — 2006
