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How did Yuri Gagarin go to space?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Yuri Gagarin flew into space aboard a Vostok spacecraft, orbiting the earth once before returning to earth. Following the Vostok 1 flight, Soviet officials tried to keep him away from any flights, being worried of losing their hero in an accident. Gagarin was backup pilot for his friend Vladimir Komarov, in the Soyuz 1 flight, which was launched despite Gagarin's protests that additional safety precautions were necessary. When Komarov's flight ended in a fatal crash, Gagarin was permanently banned from training for and participating in further spaceflights.

Gagarin was killed when his MIG-15UTI crashed on March 27, 1968 while in a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base.

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