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Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human in space on 12 April 1961, orbiting the Earth once in Vostok 1, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The flight made him a world celebrity and a symbol of Soviet technical achievement in the space race. He died in a training jet crash in 1968.
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