PARIS, April 8. /TASS/. The world’s first human in space Yuri Gagarin remains an example for all the generations of cosmonauts, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told TASS on Thursday.

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), a Soviet Air Force lieutenant, was chosen to be the first human to travel into outer space. His spacecraft launched and landed on April 12, 1961, in an extremely risky ...