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Yuri Gagarin

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space

browse: aircraft pilots, astronauts, military officers

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born: 1934
died: 1968
age at death: 34
known for: aircraft pilot, astronaut, military officer

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who yuri gagarin is

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first person to journey into outer space during the first successful crewed spaceflight. He was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. The flight took 108 minutes.

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