Yuri Gagarin is the first astronaut to arrive in space. Born in Kalushino, a small village west of Moscow in Russia, Gagawin loved mathematics and physics, and then went to industrial school in Saratov, He then joined the aviation club. Gagarin quickly learned to fly. He made his first solo trip in 1955 and led him to the Orenburg Air School, where he learned to fly a MiG. Although he was a fighter pilot, his goal was to visit space, He was following the progress made by the Soviet Union in the flights Satellite, he was confident of sending a man into space, and he wanted to be that guy, so he volunteered to be an astronaut.
