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Remember When? April 1961 Email your nostalgia pictures for this daily feature to mypictures@mrn.co.uk
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ON THIS day in 1961 the world suddenly seemed a little smaller
when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the
planet.
His 108 minute flight as pilot of the spaceship Vostok proved that
man could endure the rigours of lift-off, re-entry and ...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Yuri Gagarin.(News)
; ...Mail It was on April 12, 1961 that Yuri Gagarin, 27, became the first person to orbit...how his body would adapt. In the spaceship Vostok 1, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Alexeyevich...re-entry was controlled by a computer. Yuri Gagarin did not land inside Vostok 1. He...March 27, 1968, at ...
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 "Birmingham Mail (England)")
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Remember When? April 1961; Email your nostalgia pictures for this daily feature to mypictures@mrn.co.uk.(Features)
; ...suddenly seemed a little smaller when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the planet. His 108 minute flight as pilot of the spaceship Vostok proved that man could endure the rigours of lift-off...perform the tasks that were essential to spacecraft flight. Yuri ...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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DAY OF THE DAY.(Features)
; YURI Gagarin hailed a national hero in Soviet Union after becoming first man in space in 1961.
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 "Morning Edition (NPR)")
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Analysis: Worldwide series of parties to commemorate the first human space flight
; ...The bad news is he was a Russki. Mr. YURI GAGARIN (Cosmonaut): (Russian spoken) CHADWICK...voice of a 27-year-old Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, calling over the radio from space...young people feel about space and about Yuri Gagarin's achievement in particular? Mr. WHITESIDES...
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Yuri Gagarin
; Name: Yuri Gagarin Date of Birth: March 27, 1934 Country: Russia (former USSR) Known for: The first person to travel in space and orbit Earth on April 12, 1961 Did you know? There is a crater on the Moon named after Gagarin. 2005 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)
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TV Reviews: Reputations: Yuri Gagarin and Trust Me,I'm A Doctor
; ...knew I was getting old when I asked a colleague how to spell Yuri Gagarin and she replied "Who?" Then again Yuri's global fame always...James Doran's film about the cosmonaut (Reputations Special: Yuri Gagarin, 9pm, BBC2) included a scene in which contemporary primary...
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 "Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)")
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The world salutes first man in space.(News)
; Byline: By ANDREW BALDWIN Feature Writer YURI Gagarin's name entered the history books when...years of highly secretive training for Yuri Gagarin, who beat off thousands of other hopefuls...actor to win an Oscar; RACE WINNER: Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, April...
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Get the Picture the answers ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
; This week's theme: famous Russians From top left: Rimsky- Korsakov, Tolstoy, Yuri Gagarin, Anna Kournikova, Rasputin, Stalin
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WEDNESDAY 12 APRIL 1961 ; First man in space
; The 27-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was fired into space on board Vostok from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. He made a single orbit of the Earth, taking 108 minutes from launch to landing
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1961 FRIDAY 5 MAY
; First American in space Three weeks after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, Commander Alan Shepard piloted the first US manned mission, travelling 115 miles into space
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