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Yuriy Gagarin (Date taken unknown)
Gagarin and school mates. Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968, middle row, third from left), Soviet cosmonaut and first man in space, in a school photograph. Gagarin made the first manned space flight on 12 April 1961. He orbited the Earth once in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, a flight that lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes. Gagarin became a hero in the Soviet Union and famous worldwide. He later returned to active service as a test pilot, dying in a crash during a training flight in 1968. His ashes were interred with full military honours in the Kremlin Wall.
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20-02-2012
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