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Yuri Gagarin: Facts about the first human in space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human in space. In 1961, he orbited Earth aboard the Vostok 1 space capsule, the first-ever crewed spacecraft.
As a result, he became an international celebrity and received many awards for this achievement, both within and outside the Soviet Union.
Vostok 1 was Gagarin's only spaceflight.
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He was on the backup crew for the Soyuz 1 mission but wasn’t allowed to go to space after that mission ended in a fatal crash because officials worried that Gagarin, a national hero, would be killed. Though he was eventually allowed to continue flying regular aircraft, he died five weeks after being cleared to fly again, when his flight-training airplane crashed.
The exact cause of the crash is still unknown.
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