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Yuri Gagarin became the first man to take the road to the stars 60 years ago

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Yuri Gagarin became the first person to go into space in 1961.
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He was born into a working-class family; the son of a farmer and carpenter, Alexei, and a dairy maid, Anna, who welcomed visits from his uncle Pavel Ivanovich as the pair gazed up at the sky and talked about the blue yonder.
Even in the mid-1940s, aged 11, Yuri Gagarin was among the many youngsters across the world who dreamt of going boldly into the stratosphere.

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Gagarin, the peasant who opened the window to the cosmos - La Prensa Latina Media

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Birth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin: Celebrating the first human to journey into outer space

Updated Mar 09, 2021 | 05:59 IST
Every year, March 9 is celebrated as Yuri Gagarin's birth anniversary. He was the first human to journey into outer space.
Gagarin's capsule Vostok 1 completed one orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961 (Representative Image). | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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He was the first human to journey into outer space
Moscow: Born on March 9, 1934, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and the first human to journey into outer space. Gagarin was a cosmonaut who became an international rage after his space feat. Born in Klushino near Gzhatsk, Gagarin started working as a foundryman at a steel plant in Lyubertsy.

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