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Yuri Gagarin | The Soviet cosmonaut who made a pioneering spaceflight 60 years ago Updated: Updated: April 12, 2021 14:04 IST Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering, single-orbit flight made him a hero in the Soviet Union and an international celebrity. Share Article AAA The successful one-orbit flight on April 12, 1961 made the 27-year-old Gagarin a national hero and cemented Soviet supremacy in space until the United States put a man on the moon more than eight years later. | File   Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering, single-orbit flight made him a hero in the Soviet Union and an international celebrity. Crushed into the pilot’s seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin saw flames outside his spacecraft and prepared to die. His voice broke the tense silence at ground control: “I’m burning. Goodbye, comrades.” Gagarin didn’t know that the blazing inferno he observed through a porthole was a cloud of plasma engulfing Vostok 1 during its re-entry into the Earth’s atm

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