do you beLIEve Yuri Gagarin was 1st man in space?

Question

i heard some other chap called ilushin or something like that went 1st but badly injured himself on return to earth.'Back in the day' it was all about beating the usa.

I 'heard' it on a tv program called 'red space'

Answer 1

There were rumors of earlier attempts by the Soviets to send men into space that were unsuccessful, and thus hid from the public eye.

One rumor is that a cosmonaut (Ilyushin) flew a week before Gagarin, but landed in Red China, and was held for almost a year before being returned to the Soviet Union. The theory was discounted, however, because although the relations between the two countries were strained, China would have scored a major publicity coup by announcing the recovery, rather than agreeing to a coverup.

Other rumors have been dismissed as unmanned tests of the Vostok capsule, complete with "dummy" cosmonauts and voice recordings to test the radio systems.

Answer 2

It would not be inconsistent for the Soviet Union of that era to cover up an unsuccessful spaceflight, but with the subsequent "Glasnost" and further disintegration of the Soviet Union, I strongly suspect that any such easily uncovered scheme would have been brought to light since so many people would have been involved and so many records would have needed to be expunged. The fact remains that the U.S.S.R. did in fact beat the U.S. to orbit, but by employing a cluster-rocket booster technology that quite likely put them at a disadvantage to successfully pursue the next phase of lunar travel which would involve considerably greater power requirements. Also, there were injuries in the Soviet program that were in fact revealed later, so at this point the commonly accepted historical record does seem reasonable.

Answer 3

There have always been rumors that because the USSR always wanted to only look good and capable, they never talked about the failures they had before their success with Gagarin. Sometimes this seems plausible knowing how much information control they always exerted, but I also think not even the now officially defunct Soviet Union could keep EVERYONE quiet for all these decades--meaning someone by now would have blabbed. But, you never kow how powerful the former KGB may still be.

Answer 4

The first man in space, also the first to orbit (though only once) was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian MIG fighter pilot.

"Poyekhali!" - Gagarin's first word upon lift off, roughly means "we're off!"

Answer 5

It depends on your definition of "Space". To many people, it's anything above 100,000 feet (about 19 miles or 30 Km).

"A pair of young test pilots, Captains Iven C. Kincheloe and Milburn G. "Mel" Apt, were assigned the job of further expanding the envelope and, on September 7, 1956, Kincheloe became the first pilot ever to climb above 100,000 ft (30,500 m) as he flew the X-2 to a peak altitude of 126,200 ft (38,466 m)."

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Given the unimpeachable source you gave of "i heard," how can we possibly doubt it?

*insert rolling eyes*

Believe whatever you want, dude...but there are much better sources to indicate that it really was Yuri Gagarin.

Answer 8

i cant remmeber the name but it was a russian pilot that was the first to go into space.

but it was the americans who were the first to land on the moon

Answer 9

Yes!

Answer 10

That's very thought provoking