First Up Summary

First Up Summary

First up is a story about how Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space April 12 1961.Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9th 1934 and died on march the 27th 1968. Yuri Gagarin was a small man at the height 1.57metres tall. Gagarin was going to travel to space. He was going to orbit around the earth once.They had tested the journey first using animals such as dogs, rats, flies, chimpanzee, etc and now it was time for a human to try. The Spaceship that Gagarin went in was 38 metres high and part of the soviet union Russia. The Spaceship was called Vostok 1.  30 seconds after takeoff Gagarin was travelling faster than the speed of sound. After ten minutes final rocket dispatches. Gagarin was the first human off of earth. Gagarin would go once around the world. Gagarin's job was to stay alive and unharmed. he travelled 320 km above the earth. Gagarin is flying at a staggering speed 28,000km an hour. He was also reporting to a radio station. Gagarin had 8000km before landing and needed to start slowing down so he used his retro rockets to do so. But then something bad happened. two parts of the ship did not  separate probably  sending him spinning for 5 long scary minutes but finally the wires broke and the parts that were joined separated. 108 mins minutes after takeoff he opened his parachute and landed in the countryside. He landed a while away from the spaceship. He noticed a farmer and his daughter standing near him and asked for a phone.

Gagarin became famous internationally and did world tours. A town in Russia renamed a city Gagarin. Gagarin still loved flying but wasn't allowed back into space incase he got injured. But one day when he was flying in a normal plane the plane went out of control and crashed killing him instantly. Why the plane went out of control nobody knows Gagarin is still talked about today.