April 12 National Cosmonaut day

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin( Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин) 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, On April 12 1961 he became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth Yuri was born in the village of Klushino near Smolensk Russia. His parents worked on a collective farm. The famous statement that Yuri was said to have made while he was in space as he looked out his window “ I don’t see any God up here” was never said by Yuri.  According to his earth to space conversation and Colonel Valentin Petrov a close friend of Yuri, Yuri never said such a statement from space.One of his recorded quotes from space was “The Earth is blue..How wonderful. It is amazing” Isaiah 40:22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.