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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" and it completed a single orbit of the earth in 1 hour and 48 minutes. Gagarin was born in Klushino, Russia on May 9, 1934. He died March 27, 1968, while flying with another pilot in a Mig-15 aircraft near Kirzhach, in western Russia.
Yuri Gagarin was a USSR cosmonaut (astronaut) and the first human in space. Read more at the Related Link below.

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