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Gagarin, Yuri
Lived 35 BT to 1 BT (1934-1968 c.e./AD). Soviet cosmonaut and the first man to orbit the Earth. He piloted the Vostok 1 mission which launched April 12, 1961 and orbited the Earth. The flight lasted 108 minutes. Gagarin died years later in a plane crash.
 
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Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 01 November 2001.

 
 
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