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“The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.”

Quote by Yuri Gagarin

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Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, was the first human to travel into space. Born on March 9, 1934, in the village of Klushino, Gzhatsk District, Smolensk Oblast, he tragically died in a plane crash on March 27, 1968. Gagarin's historic spaceflight aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, marked the beginning of the space age. more

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