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Yuri Gagarin
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  • Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte stands in a space museum with a portrait of the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the wall at Baikonur Cosmodrome
    Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte stands in a space museum with a ...
    Source: Reuters
Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte stands in a space museum with a ...
Yuri Gagarin's Biography

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Jurij Aleksejevič Gagarin Russian pronunciation: [ˈjurʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth. He received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in space.

Yuri Gagarin News Stories

  • News Source: Xinhuanet.com | 14 days ago
    We bring the children from grades five and six here twice a year, as they learn so much from the hands-on displays, and presentations and guides and the planetarium here is wonderful," said Miyuki Yamagishi, a grade six teacher from Kumagaya Nishi
  • News Source: The Age | about 1 month ago
    Popovich, who was also the first Ukrainian to be sent into space, piloted the Vostok 4 capsule. Another cosmonaut, Andrian Nikolayev, had been launched the day before on Vostok 3, and their exploits deeply discomforted the US...That February and May
  • News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | about 1 month ago
    On August 12, 1962, Pavel Popovich became the fourth cosmonaut to orbit the Earth, and the eighth person, and first Ukrainian, to be sent into space...High above the Earth, the two Soviet spacecraft had got to within 5 kilometres of each other.

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  • Blog Source: www.astro-auction.com | about 1 month ago
    Vostok 1+2 combination launch cover Interesting launch cover cancelled for Vostok 1- Yuri Gagarin and Vostok 2 - Gherman Titov.These were the world's first two manned orbital flights ! ...
  • Blog Source: slightlyintrepid.blogspot.com | about 1 month ago
    the launch of the first artificial satellite (Sputnik, 1957); the launch of the first animal in space (the dog Laika, 1957); the first man in space (Yuri Gagarin, 1961); the first woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova, 1963) ...
  • Blog Source: kriscorpus.blogspot.com | about 1 month ago
    so im finding it ever more evident that i get more educated from rap music than any other type of media here's what i discovered from Clipse ft. Cam'ron- Popular Demand in Cam'ron's verse, he references Yuri Gagarin in his line, ...

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