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00:01:19 1 Early life and education 00:03:49 2 Soviet Air Force 00:04:44 3 Soviet space program 00:04:54 3.1 Selection and training 00:08:14 3.2 Vostok 1 00:11:42 4 After the Soviet space program 00:15:40 5 Death 00:16:14 5.1 Cause of jet crash 00:21:01 6 Personal life 00:22:02 7 Legacy and tributes 00:22:12 7.1 Legacy 00:23:33 7.2 Tributes 00:28:13 7.2.1 Statues 00:30:36 7.2.2 50th anniversary 00:31:44 7.3 Honours and awards 00:37:24 8 See also
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He became the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation's highest honour. Vostok 1 was his only spaceflight, but he served as the backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission, which ended in a fatal crash. Gagarin later served as the deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was subsequently named after him. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale awards the Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal in his honour.