this is moscow radio station so disobedient aren't here. on april twelfth one thousand nine hundred eighty one people across the soviet union were glued to their radios they heard a stunning message and the first time ever a man had broken out of earth's gravitational pull and gone to outer space. the first man to do so was the soviet union's very own good he got it. correct with may and some of my friends were in college getting ready for an exam in higher mathematics. but undergrad got dark and got older suddenly a fellow student burst into the classroom. and says someone by the name of karen had been launched into space on it. yes we asked him what the patronymic of this pilot. save if he said yes now we knew that he was yuri gagarin. there was a red carpet rolled out on the airfield of a moscow airport on april fourteenth nine hundred sixty one in ceremony all steps major got in march toward soviet leader nikita khrushchev without noticing the issue aces and come undone still he made his official report. her very first secretary of the c