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On the 50th anniversary of the death of Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space

27. March 2018 Roland Lüthi

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin had made history through his first manned space flight on 12 April 1961 and was considered a national hero when he died on 27 March 1968 during a routine flight with a MiG-15 fighter jet.

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