Meeting of Yuri Gagarin in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, parents of the USSR pilot-cosmonaut Anna Timofeyevna and Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin (left to right) during the ceremonial meeting of Yury A. Gagarin at Vnukovo Airport. Soviet pilot Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first person in the world to fly into space on April 12, 1961, on the Vostok spacecraft. Vladimir Savostyanov/TASS