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Yuri Gagarin was a cosmonaut for the Soviet Union. On April 12, 1961, he became the first human being to travel into space. His spacecraft was called "Vostok I".

The exploration flight was limited to a single Earth orbit, with a maximum altitude of 315 km (196 miles). His polar flight path traveled NE, then back over the South Pacific, the tip of South America, and central Africa before returning to the USSR.

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