††††The first man in space, Yuri A. Gagarin, set off in a Vostok manned spacecraft named Swallow, on top of an SS-6 (Sapwood) intercontinental ballistic missile, at 9.07 am Moscow time on 12 April 1961.
He orbited the Earth once, in 89 minutes, before returning to Earth. The entire trip lasted 108 minutes.
