YURI GOES INTO SPACE!

1961: Yuri Gagarin is the first human being to travel into space (by sciencemug)

[The picture of Yuri Gagarin is adapted from a Public Domain image by sciencemug (source: Wikimedia Commons)]

[The picture of the Earth is adapted from a Public Domain image by sciencemug (source: Wikimedia Commons)]

Guess who said: "The sky is very dark; the Earth is bluish. Everything is seen very clearly", from space... More about Yuri Gagarin and his historic flight here and here.