Yuri Gagarin

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man to enter deep space on April 12, 1961, when the Soviet cosmonaut made a flight that orbited Earth lasting one hour and 48 minutes in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. This accomplishment made the smiling Soviet pilot internationally famous as the first man to venture into space... See full bio »

Born:

Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin
March 9, 1934 in Klushino, Gzhatskiy rayon, Zapadnaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Gagarinskiy rayon, Smolenskskaya oblast, Russia]

Died:

March 27, 1968 (age 34) in Novoselovo, Kirzhachskiy rayon, Vladimirskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

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1963 Geliebt von Millionen (documentary short)
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1961 A Man Has Returned from Space (documentary short)
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1 Print Biography | 2 Magazine Cover Photos | See more »

Alternate Names:

Juri Gagarin | Yuriy Gagarin

Height:

5' 2" (1.57 m)

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[first words ever spoken by a human leaving Earth for outer space] Let's go! See more »

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On March 27, 1968, he was killed in a crash of a MiG-15 on a routine training flight near Moscow together with his instructor. It is uncertain what caused the crash, but a 1986 inquiry suggests that the turbulence from a Su-11 interceptor airplane using its afterburners may have caused his plane to go out of control... See more »

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