Yuri Gagarin

0:03 Kalaroga Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Allison. In today's theme is Uri Gagarin's Birthday, Space Pioneers, the space race and human spaceflight. Question one. Uri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space, was born in a small village west of Moscow. On what date do we celebrate his birthday? Question two? Commemorated today by Cosmonautics Day in Russia. On what date and aboard what spacecraft did Uri Gagarin complete the first human spaceflight? Question three? During the early space race, which American became the first from his country to orbit Earth and what was the name of his mercury capsule?

0:55 Question four? Just two years after Gagarin, which former textile worker became the first woman in space and what mission carried her into orbit? Question five? Who performed the world's first spacewalk and what dangerous spacesuit issue forced him to vent air to get back inside the spacecraft. We'll be right back with these answers after this break. Welcome back. Question one. On what date was Yuri Gagarin born? Answer March ninth, nineteen thirty four. Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino in the Smolensk region of the Soviet Union.

1:37 Less than twenty seven years later, he would make history as the first human in space. Question two, When and on what spacecraft did Gagarin make the first human spaceflight? Answer April twelfth, nineteen sixty one, Vostok I. Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth aboard Vostok one after launching from bay Konor. April twelfth is celebrated as Cosmonautics Day in Russia and recized globally as the International Day of Human Spaceflight. Question three Who first orbited Earth for the US and in what capsule? Answer? John Glenn Friendship seven. On February twentieth, nineteen sixty two, John Glenn orbited Earth three times in the Mercury Atlas six mission. The success of Friendship seven marked a pivotal moment for NASA in the space race.

2:24 Question four. Who was the first woman in space and on what mission? Answer? Valentina Tereshkova Vostok six. Teshkova launched on June sixteenth, nineteen sixty three, spending nearly three days in orbit. Her pioneering flight proved women could endure the challenges of spaceflight. Question five, Who made the first spacewalk and what problem did he face? Answer Alexei Leonov. His suit ballooned, making re entry to the airlock difficult. Leonov's twelve minute EVA on March eighteenth, nineteen sixty five, during voscod II, caused his suit to overenflight in the vacuum of space. He manually bled pressure, risking decompression sickness to squeeze back into the airlock. That concludes today's five daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.