| On April 12, 1961, the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 lifted off into space to achieve the first Earth orbit. |
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| Gagarin used radios that transmitted via the very high frequency, high frequency, and shortwave bandwidths. |
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| Some forty years ago, the Soviets took the bull by the horns and launched Yuri Gagarin into space. |
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| After his orbital flight, Gagarin made many public appearances and in 1966 began training for a Soyuz flight. |
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| After that it is customary that we write in the visitors' book in the originally arranged room of Yuri Gagarin in the museum in Star City. |
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| In the small Fife town of Lumphinnans there is a street named in honour of the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. |
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| In 1961, Soviet Union wins again with the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, whose spacecraft is just 2.6m in diameter. |
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| These days, astronauts spend a lot longer in space than Gagarin did, and the effects add up over time. |
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| Today we echo the excited exclamation of Yuri Gagarin as he became the first man in space. |
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| Four years later, Yuri Gagarin was the first human to see Earth from space. |
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| One of these 20 young men, Yury Gagarin, became the first human in space with his April 12, 1961 one-orbit flight. |
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| He shared his likenesses of Lenin and Yuri Gagarin, and she spent an afternoon showing me around the city. |
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| It indicates that there were two launches previous to Gagarin. |
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| Fifty years have elapsed since a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, lit the blue touchpaper on the era of manned spaceflight. |
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| In April 1961, the cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, became the first man to orbit the earth. |
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| Gagarin and several other heroes of the Russian space program are buried within the walls of the Kremlin. |
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| Four years later the first human travelled into space, a Soviet named Yuri Gagarin. |
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| In September,Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, invited to France by General de Gaulle, pays an informal visit. |
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| Gagarin was pushed by the Soviets as the epitome of the Communist ideal. |
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| From the moment he learned about Sputnik, Gagarin secretly knew he would join the space programme and even began sketching his ideas for spaceships. |
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| Albert Einstein, Gabriel García Márquez, Enrico Caruso, Yuri Gagarin, mother Theresa of Calcutta and Sarah Bernhardt are some of the important figures present in the 100 Famous in Havana. |
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| Naturally, to do that, I had to do a lot of research, which can be seen in the various archive images used in the film: Gagarin, Valentina Tereskova, the emotional crowds? |
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| Statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first person to go to space. |
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| The fact that Yury Gagarin had become the first man to orbit the Earth in 1961 may have contributed to Khrushchev's bold, or rather rash, demarche. |
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| On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth for an hour 29 minutes. |
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| It also brought Gagarin immediate worldwide fame. |
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| Visitors are thrilled by the display of a replica of the Vostok, the man-made satellite that carried Yuri Gagarin, the first person into space in 1961, and by the prototypes of other satellites. |
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| Before Yuri Gagarin or John Glenn orbited the Earth, artist Chesley Bonestell was depicting what life would be like in orbit and which kind of space vehicles would be used. |
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| In 2004, Dr. Thirsk trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow and became certified as a Flight Engineer for the Soyuz spacecraft. |
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| Cosmonaut experience: In 1987 he was selected as a cosmonaut for training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center after successfully graduating from the Gagarin Military Air-Force Academy. |
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