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On March 27, 1968, Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space, died together with pilot Vladimir Seryogin during a routine training flight, after the MiG-15 jet fighter they were flying crashed near Novosyolovo in the Soviet Union . After his death, the Soviet government declared a period of national mourning in the memory of Gagarin.
- 27 March 1968
- MiG-15UTI
- Crashed following loss of control
- Soviet Air Forces
Jun 17, 2013 · The death of the first man in space Yuri Gagarin in a 1968 jet crash have been clouded in mystery for 45 years. But cosmonaut Alexei Leonov has new details.
t. e. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin [a] [b] (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight taking 108 minutes.
- Soviet (Russian)
- Polkóvnik (Colonel)
- Vostok 1
- Air Forces Group 1 (1960)
Apr 12, 2016 · At 9:07 a.m. on April 12, 1961, when Gagarin’s Vostok 1 spacecraft lifted off from Baikonur cosmodrome, he uttered the surprisingly informal, immediately iconic exclamation “Poyekhali ...
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Jun 18, 2013 · An accident is revealed as the true cause of Gagarin's crash during a test flight in 1968. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (March 9, 1934 - March 27, 1968). The circumstances surrounding the death of ...
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Apr 29, 2024 · World's 1st man in space once visited Nova Scotia. Yuri Gagarin (born March 9, 1934, near Gzhatsk, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now Gagarin, Russia]—died March 27, 1968, near Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first man to travel into space. The son of a carpenter on a collective farm, Gagarin graduated as a molder from a trade school ...
Jun 14, 2013 · On the morning of April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin lifted off aboard Vostok 1 to become the first human in space, spending 108 minutes in orbit before landing via parachute in the ...
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