Yuri Gagarin: The first man in space - BBC News

It’s sixty years since the first human blasted into space. For the Soviet Union, Yuri Gagarin’s single orbit of the Earth was a huge achievement and propaganda coup. There will be celebrations across Russia to mark the anniversary. We meet the woman who, as a little girl, witnessed the day the cosmonaut came back down to earth and a Russian hero was born. Please subscribe HERE #BBCNews