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Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of Earth on April 12, 1961.
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Yuri Gagarin's First Speech About His Flight Into Space
Yuri Gagarin
April 12, 2011