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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Yuri Gagarin, Vladimir Komarov, Toktar Aubakirov, List of cosmonauts, Valentina Tereshkova, Sergei Krikalev, Pavel Belyayev, Alexey Leonov, Vladimir Titov, Valentin Lebedev, Yury Romanenko, Boris Volynov, Valeri Polyakov, Gherman Titov, Konstantin Feoktistov, Valentin Varlamov, Andriyan Nikolayev, Gennadi Strekalov, Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev, Svetlana Savitskaya, Anatoly Solovyev, Vladislav Volkov, Valery Bykovsky, Valery Ryumin, Yury Glazkov, Valentina Ponomaryova, Vladimir Vasyutin, Grigori Nelyubov, Valeri Kubasov, Georgy Grechko, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, Vladimir Shatalov, Zhanna Yorkina, Viktor Patsayev, Ivan Anikeyev, Boris Yegorov, Mars Rafikov, Musa Manarov, Aleksei Gubarev, Vladimir Alekseyevich Solovyov, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Oleg Atkov, Aleksandr Laveykin, Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev, Vasily Lazarev, Anatoly Berezovoy, Gennadi Sarafanov, Vladimir Aksyonov, Aleksandr Serebrov, Yevgeny Khrunov, Aleksandr Viktorenko, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Yury Artyukhin, Lev Dyomin, Anatoly Filipchenko, Gennadi Manakov, Viktor Gorbatko, Valentin Filatyev, Boris Andreyev, Valery Rozhdestvensky, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Dmitri Zayikin, Viktor Savinykh, Vyacheslav Zudov, Aleksandr Balandin, Sergei Revin, Boris Nikolayevich Belousov. Excerpt: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: , Russian pronunciation: 9 March 1934 - 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human being to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and honours, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission (which ended in a fata...
