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The first human in space was Yuri Gagarin, 12th April 1961. he launched in Vostok 3KA-3. The capsule is often referred to as Vostok-1, as this was the name given to the payload capsule. His flight lasted 108 minutes and orbited the Earth once at a height of 108.75 miles.

Gagarin died in 1968 in a plane crash. The town of Gzhatsk, near the village of Klushino, where he was born, was renamed Gagarin in his honour.

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