First man in space: Yuri Gagarin

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Mar 9, 1934

Yuri Gagarin was born

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Aug 3, 1951

He enrolled in Saratov industrial technical school

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May 23, 1955

Graduated from Saratov Industrial technical school

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Oct 27, 1955

Yuri was drafted into the Soviet Army, and sent to the first Chkalov Air force pilot school

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Oct 4, 1957

Sputnik 1 launched into orbit by the Soviet Union

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Nov 5, 1957

Became lieutenant in the soviet air forces

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Feb 25, 1960

Yuri was selected to be a part of the Soviet Space Program along with 19 other pilots

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Apr 7, 1961

Trained for 3 hours on manual landing

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Apr 12, 1961

Vostok 3kA-3 also known as the Vostok 1 was the spacecraft that Gagarin took to space. He was the first human to go to space and the first to orbit earth as well

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Apr 12, 1961

Celebration dinner

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Apr 21, 1961

Gagarin is on the cover of Time Magazine

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Jul 11, 1961

Awarded the British Interplanetary Society gold medal.

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Jun 12, 1962

Became the Lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Forces

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Dec 20, 1963

He became the deputy training director of the Star City Cosmonaut training base

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Mar 27, 1968

Died in jet crash with his flight director Vladimir Seryogin