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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.