The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the ... who later went on to walk on the moon – into space weeks later on 5 May, and then only on a short sub-orbital flight.
In Borman's view, "they beat us to the punch first off. Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit ... they beat us to a space walk ... the first woman in space, the first multiple crew in space." ...
The race to get the first person into space was eventually won by the USSR, when Yuri Gagarin became the first ... became the first person to perform a space walk. The American space programme ...
He trained with Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, and they became close friends. Watch archive footage of Leonov's and other spacewalks Leonov described his sortie into outer space in ...