biography
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Gagarin, Yuri (Alekseyevich)
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pronunciation:
[gagahrin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1934–68)
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| biography:
| Russian cosmonaut, born in Gagarin (formerly Gzhatsk), W Russia. He joined the Soviet air force in 1957, and in 1961 became the first man to travel in space, completing a circuit of the Earth in the Vostok spaceship satellite. A Hero of the Soviet Union, he shared the Galabert astronautical Prize with John Glenn in 1963. He was killed in a plane accident while training. |
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