Gagarin

(gä gär′in)

Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich 1934-68; Soviet cosmonaut: 1st man to orbit the earth in a space flight (1961)

See Gagarin in American Heritage Dictionary 4

Soviet cosmonaut. In 1961 he became the first person to travel in space. He was killed while flying a routine aircraft training mission.

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