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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information

Yuri Gagarin

Yuri was born in March of what year?

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1934. March 9, 1934.



Yuri became the first man in space on what date?

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April 12, 1961. On March 26, 1957 Yuri made his first solo flight in a MIG-15. It was October 4, 1957 that the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite. April 7, 1961 was the date it was decided to send a man into space.



What year did Yuri Gagarin die?

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1968. He left behind a wife and two daughters.



What was the name of the capsule that carried Yuri into space?

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Vostok.



True or False? Gagarin received so much fan mail the Russian authorities gave him his own zip code.

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True . They sure did! It was Moscow 705.

• Arrange the following six men in the order in which they went into space. Virgil Grissom, John Glenn, Gherman Titov, Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepherd, and Malcolm Scott Carpenter? ( goto )



• Who is the Russian writer whose citizenship was taken away and restored later: Maxim Gorky, Yuri Trifonov, Aleksandr Solzhenistsyn, or Boris Pasternak? ( goto )