This is a photo of Yuri Gagarin a few hours after landing. There is not his famous "Gagarine" smile here. There is a man who finally realized what happened and by what miracle he remained alive.
There were several unusual situations on earth. At first, weighing the astronaut in a scoop showed that he weighed 14 kg more than calculated. I had to urgently come up with a way to reduce the weight: I cut off two sensors from the scavenger.
After draining the luke, it turned out that it was not hermetic. There was little time left before the launch, but we managed to twist and twist 30 screws and the launch took place.
Everything was not as planned again. The second stage, with which there were never problems, worked 13 seconds longer and the spacecraft did not enter the calculated orbit, Gagarin was not told about it, but he understood that the situation was not standard. Several times he asked the CUP what had happened, but there was no answer. Everyone was waiting for the braking engine to work. He has worked. But the launch capsule did not separate from him, and together they began to fall to the ground.
“I am burning! Say goodbye!” Gagarin's words were not spoken for a long time, but it was exactly what he said when he saw flame tongues and streams of melted metal in the illuminator. He thought it was death.
But it burned the cover and due to the high temperature, the drop capsule finally disconnected and the regular decline began.
We all know that Gagarin had to catapult from the capsule along with the chair. Catapulted, flying, dropped a chair, the parachute opened, here is it, Earth!
Again an outlet. The supply of air in the skafandra has expired, and it cannot open it to breathe the earth's air. It was only six minutes after landing.
There were many smaller and not very troublesome, but Yuri Gagarin survived and became the first of the first! Remember at what price!