Yuri Gagarin is celebrated as the first human in space, but some believe he wasn’t the first — just the first to survive.

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Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space when he orbited Earth in 1961 aboard the Vostok 1 space capsule. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

Yuri Gagarin ejected from the spacecraft at 20,000 feet and thus did not land with the craft, technically, some say, not setting the record as per FAI rules.

Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was the perfect poster boy for the Soviet space programme. The son of a carpenter, he was born in Klushino, Smolensk, 160km west of Moscow, in 1934.

Then, in 1961, 27-year-old cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, beating NASA's Alan Shepard by three critical weeks. Here, a celebration of a Russian genuine trailblazer.

Yuri Gagarin was celebrated as the first man to orbit Earth. But he didn’t make a complete orbit, almost died due to equipment failures, and ejected too early — landing in a potato field.

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