The first 50 years of human space flight

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.