In April 1961, in a field near the village of Smelovaka in Russia, two farm workers look up to see a man parachuting down towards them. He is wearing a bright orange suit and a white helmet. When he lands they approach him and ask "Have you come from outer space?"

"Yes, yes, would you believe it' he answered with a big grin, "I certainly have".

The man in the orange space suit was Yuri Gagarin and he was indeed returning to earth after becoming the first man to travel in space.

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Yuri Gagarin did not make the world's first complete spaceflight according to the internationally accepted definition of landing inside of his spacecraft.  That honor went to Alan Shepard, who landed inside of his Mercury spacecraft.  The Soviet Union covered up the fact that its Vostok spacecraft were not able to safely return to earth, forcing cosmonauts to literally jump out of them at 20,000 feet and land by parachute.