This news spread around the world. In the Soviet Union people flooded onto the streets, at that point there was hardly anyone on the planet who didn’t know the name of the first man to fly to the stars – Yuri Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin was born in 1934 in a Russian village in the Smolensk region. He graduated the Flying Academy and in 1959 in strict secrecy was recruited into the space programme.

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