How many minutes did Yuri Gagarin's 1961 flight, the first human spaceflight in history, last from launch to landing?

Answer

108 minutes

The first human in space was back on the ground in under two hours — and he parachuted out of his capsule before it hit the ground, landing in a Russian farm field where he had to reassure a startled farmer's wife and her granddaughter that he'd come from space.

Source: NASA