Tribute to Yuri Gagarin - 50th anniversary- Song Seed by Russian Red Army Choir. April 12, 2011 - 50th anniversary of the world's first manned flight into space carried out by Yuri Gagarin. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut who on 12 April 1961 became the first human to journey into outer space,launching to orbit aboard the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1). His call sign in this flight was Kedr (Russian: Кедр). On 27 March 1968, while on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base, he and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died in a MiG-15UTI crash near the town of Kirzhach. The bodies of Gagarin and Seryogin were cremated and the ashes were buried in the walls of the Kremlin on Red Square. These lyrics Seed are performed by Russian Red Army Choir and Basil Poledouris and are the property of the respective authors, artists and labels.