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Who was Yuri Gagarin and what was Vostok 1?  | HIX Tutor

<p>Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut (astronaut) and a pilot. He was the first human ever who left the Earth, flew it around and returned. Vostok-1  (means East-1 in Russian language) is a spaceship which delivered him into the space in 1961. Yuri Gagrin was a national hero in the USSR and when he died during airplane testing in 1968 it was a national tragedy.<br>
By the way Vostok-1 is also a Soviet Antarctic scientific station. It was closed and left in 1957. All equipment was moved into new station - Vostok which still works.</p>

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Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to travel into space. Vostok 1 was the spacecraft in which Gagarin orbited Earth on April 12, 1961, completing one orbit around the planet before safely returning to Earth.