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Full name: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin. Birth: 9 March 1934, Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Death: 27 March 1968, Novosyolovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Yuri Gagarin was...
- Early Years
- First Human Spaceflight
- Mysterious Death
The third of four children, he was born on March 9th, 1934 in the small village of Klushino, which lies around 125 miles from Moscow, Soviet Union. During the Nazi occupation in World War II, his parents were forced to hide with their children in a small mud hut for 1 year and nine months. In early 1946 they moved to Gzhatsk, a nearby city which is...
On April 12th, 1961, aboard Vostok 1, Yuri Gagarin became the first man to journey into space, a trip which lasted 108 minutes but transformed him into a legend. Recalling his experience of spaceflight, he stated that he felt as if he were being “suspended.” He allegedly commented “I don’t see any God up here.” The Vostok 1 mission successfully mad...
Yuri Gagarin passed away at the age of 34, on March 27th, 1968 during a routine training flight. His jet fighter MiG-15 UTI crashed near Kirzhach, Russia. His body was cremated and the ashes were buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis on the main city square in Moscow, Red Square. Over the years, different investigations of this plane crash have bee...
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Full name: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin. Birth: 9 March 1934, Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Death: 27 March 1968, Novosyolovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Yuri Gagarin was a...
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin Born March 9, 1934, Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet UnionDied March 27 1968 (aged 34), Novosyolovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Time in space: 1 hour, 48...
He later joined the Soviet Air Forces as a pilot and was stationed at the Luostari Air Base, near the Norway–Soviet Union border, before his selection for the Soviet space programme alongside five other cosmonauts.
