Yuri Gagarin
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first person to journey into outer space during the first successful crewed spaceflight. He was launched from the Baikonur Cos
Gagarin in 1963
Gagarin family home in Klushino
Gagarin as an air cadet in the Saratov flying club c. 1954
Gagarin's Vostok 3KA capsule and an effigy of him on display at the RKK Energiya museum in 2010
Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina
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Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina was the wife of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin
…aerodynamic configuration and graduated cum laude from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. In 1957, while a cadet in flight school, Gagarin met Valentina Goryacheva at the May Day celebrations at the Red Square in Moscow. She was a medical technician who had graduated from Orenburg Medical School. They were married…
Valentina Gagarina 1964
Alexei Leonov and Yury Gagarin’s widow Valentina Gagarina
Valentina Gagarina and her husband, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, in 1964