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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin1934 - 1968
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First man in space:

On April 12, 1961, the USSR opened the era of manned spaceflight, with the flight of the first cosmonaut (Russian name for space travelers), Yuri Gagarin.

Yuri Gagrin Gagarin's flight, part of the Soviet Vostok space exploration program, took 108 minutes and consisted of a single orbit of the Earth.

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ROSCOSMOS State Space Corporation Russian Federal Space Agency (http://en.roscosmos.ru/174/), accessed 10 Apr 2017.


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