Yuri Gagarin
9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, completing one orbit of Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961. He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union and became an international celebrity before dying in a training-flight crash in 1968.
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Life events
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born into a family of collective farm workers.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWhile training as a foundryman in Saratov he joined a local flying club and made his first solo flights.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe trained on MiG-15 jets and was commissioned as a lieutenant, then posted to a fighter unit in the Murmansk region.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGagarin married Valentina Ivanovna Goryacheva, a medical technician; they had two daughters.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was among the twenty pilots chosen for the Soviet space programme's first cosmonaut training group.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGagarin completed a single orbit of Earth in 108 minutes, launching from Baikonur and landing by parachute near Engels in the Saratov region.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTwo days after his flight he was honoured in Moscow and received the Soviet Union's highest distinction.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGagarin completed an engineering degree at the academy in Moscow shortly before his death.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGagarin and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died when their MiG-15UTI crashed during a routine training flight; he was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
Source: en.wikipedia.org