On the morning of April 12, 1961, the Vostok spacecraft was launched into orbit carrying the world’s first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, a citizen of the Soviet Union.
The quote in the title is probably not all that accurate but succinctly encapsulates that which Gagarin repeated many times, that he looked and looked for God in space but did not find him.
A remarkable man and a remarkable acheivement.
There can only be one first, and in this case Yuri gagarin was and will always be the first human in space.
