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“When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!”

Quote by Yuri Gagarin

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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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