- Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut
Born: | 09 March 1934 Comment | When did Yuri Gagarin die? / Died | 27 March 1968 | How many years did Yuri Gagarin live? / Lived | 34 years | Zodiac sign: | Pisces |
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Yuri Gagarin facts
- He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961
- Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour
- Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission (which ended in a fatal crash)
- Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after him
- Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed
- The Yuri Gagarin Medal is awarded in his honor
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