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	Yuri Gagarin - MSN Encarta
		Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born in the Smolensk region of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
		Gagarin and fellow cosmonaut Gherman Titov, front-runners in their class, were both contenders for the Vostok 1 flight.
		Gagarin was exposed to about six times the normal force of gravity on the earth during the launch phase and about eight times the normal force of gravity during the re-entry.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571506/Yuri_Gagarin.html (634 words)

	Yuri Gagarin
		Colonel Yuri A. Gagarin, popularly called “The Columbus of the Cosmos,” was born on a collective farm in a region west of Moscow, Russia, on March 9, 1934.
		Yuri attended the local school for six years and continued his education at vocational and technical schools.
		Yuri Gagarin joined the Russian Air Force in 1955 and graduated with honors from the Soviet Air Force Academy in 1957.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/GAGARIN/DI169.htm (284 words)

	Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yuri was the third of four children, and his elder sister helped raise him while his parents worked.
		Yuri Gagarin Memorial Plaque - presented to the USSR on January 21, 1971.
		A new theory, advanced by the original crash investigator in 2005, hypothesises that a cabin vent was accidentally left open by the crew or the previous pilot, thus leading to oxygen deprivation and leaving the crew incapable of controlling the aircraft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yuri_Gagarin (1721 words)

	Russian Archives Online > The Gallery > Yuri Gagarin p.1
		Yuri, sitting, here with his brothers and sisters, was the third child.
		Yuri helped his parents dig a dugout where they lived untill the war was over, then the family moved to Gziatsk.
		Yuri was so excited about flying that he spent an entire summer in a tent next to the airfield.
	www.abamedia.com /rao/gallery/gagarin (467 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Today's issues \| Yuri Gagarin
		Gagarin's safe return killed off worries that space flight would be fatal for humans; it also badly bruised American confidence.
		Banned from more space missions in case he was killed, Gagarin grew depressed and turned to alcohol, but did as he was told and helped train other cosmonauts at Moscow's Star City.
		Gagarin has a crater on the moon named after him; Picasso drew a picture for him; and on the fortieth anniversary of his earth orbit there will be parties around the world in his honour.
	www.guardian.co.uk /netnotes/article/0,6729,470879,00.html (359 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Russia remembers space hero
		Gagarin had been in training as a cosmonaut for just a year and 29 days, but for only the last two of them had he known he would be the first man in space.
		Gagarin was born to humble folk and his boyhood had been cut short by the war.
		Gagarin's shy smile, which once adorned the walls of the Mir space station, comes from the era of a command economy in which space was to serve the military and boost national prestige.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1271844.stm (743 words)

	Yuri A. Gagarin
		Colonel Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was born of a peasant family in the village of Klushino, Smolensk region.
		Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was called "The Columbus of The Cosmos," an apt and well-deserved title.
		Gagarin was superbly prepared for his encounter with history, both physically and technologically.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aerojava/gagarin.htm (440 words)

	Gagarin
		Gagarin's blood pressure is measured as 115/60, pulse 64, body temperature 36.8 deg C. He then subjects to placement of the biosensors he will wear during the flight, and baseline measurements are taken for an hour and twenty minutes.
		Gagarin is found at 23:50 at night on the lawn outside his resort hotel in the Crimea, with a big gash in his face and bleeding profusely.
		Gagarin had leapt the 2 m to an asphalt surface, but caught his foot in the grape vines against the wall, pitched forward, and hit his face on a cement curb.
	www.astronautix.com /astros/gagarin.htm (18387 words)

	The Voice of Russia [ RUSSIAN IN SPACE ]
		The village is the birthplace of Yuri Gagarin, born a fifth child in the family of a carpenter.
		Yuri’s teachers at secondary school and then at vocational training school remembered him as a lively fellow with inquisitive mind and outstanding aptitude for everything that came into the range of his interests.
		Gagarin was offered to stay on in the school working as instructor but he asked to send him to serve in the Arctic.
	www.vor.ru /Space/Space_next100_eng.html (837 words)

	Yuri Alexeivich Gagarin Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alexeivich Gagarin (1934-1968) was the first man to orbit the earth in an artificial satellite and thus ushered in the age of manned spaceflight.
		Yuri Gagarin, the third child of Alexei Ivanovich, a carpenter on a collective farm, and Anna Timofeyevna, was born on March 9, 1934, in the village of Klushino, Smolensk Province.
		Yuri attended an elementary school in Gzhatsk; in the sixth grade he began to study physics.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/yuri-alexeivich-gagarin (725 words)

	First Flight Shrine: Colonel Yuri A. Gagarin - The First Flight Society - The First Flight Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		olonel Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, Soviet Air Force, became a Soviet hero as the first person to break the bonds of earth's gravity and venture into the weightlessness of space when he orbited the earth on April 12, 1961.
		Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934, in the city of Gzhatsk, Russia, into a collective farmer's family.
		In 1960, now a colonel, Gagarin was selected to be a member of the first group of USSR cosmonauts.
	www.firstflight.org /shrine/gagarin.cfm (226 words)

	Space Today Online - Answers To Your Questions
		Gagarin was carrying a small doll as a gravity indicator.
		As planned, at 108 minutes, Gagarin ejected himself from the capsule at an altitude of 23,000 ft. He separated from his ejection seat at 13,000 ft., descending via parachute to land in the Saratov area southeast of Moscow near the Volga River.
		Gagarin, 34 years old when he died, was training for a second space flight to include the first docking of two orbiting capsules.
	www.spacetoday.org /Questions/FirstMannedMission.html (1516 words)

	Yuri Gagarin
		Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is often referred to as "The Columbus of The Cosmos!"
		Colonel Yuri A. Gagarin was born on a collective farm in a region west of Moscow, Russia on March 9, 1934.
		Colonel Yuri Gagarin died on March 27, 1968 when the MiG-15 he was piloting crashed near Moscow.
	starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/gagarin.html (306 words)

	Yuri Gagarin in Halifax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Yuri Gagarin is a Russian cosmonaut who was born on March 9, 1934, near Moscow, Russia.
		Gagarin became the first person in space when he flew aboard the Vostok spacecraft in 1961.
		Gagarin was killed in a plane accident in 1968.
	www.getthehomehabit.com /Gagarin.htm (94 words)

	Yuri Gagarin - EnchantedLearning.com
		Gagarin was born in a small town west of Moscow, Russia, and grew up on a collective farm.
		Gagarin piloted the Vostok 1 (Vostok means East in Russian) mission, which launched April 12, 1961, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
		Gagarin Crater, a wide shallow, circular, and heavily eroded crater on the far side of the moon, was named for him.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/g/gagarin.shtml (259 words)

	GPN-2002-000168 - Gagarin on his way to Vostok Launch
		A pensive Yuri Gagarin is in the bus on the way to the launch pad on the morning of April 12, 1961.
		Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in a town outside of Moscow, Russia.
		After his historic flight, Gagarin became an international symbol for the Soviet space program and in 1963 was appointed deputy director of the Cosmonaut Training Center.
	grin.hq.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/GPN-2002-000168.html (255 words)

	Lovatts Crossword Trivia - Yuri Gagarin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was born on a collective farm in Smolensk, west of Moscow in March 1934.
		Yuri Gagarin flew his only space mission, when April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, he became the first human to orbit Earth.
		Although Gagarin had no control of the spacecraft, a key was placed in a sealed envelope in case an emergency situation made it necessary for him to take control.
	www.lovatts.com.au /trivia/fillingthegaps/trivia_fig35_yurigagarin.htm (248 words)

	Planetarium.Net Yuri Gagarin Human Spaceflight Timeline
		Gagarin was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in what was then the Soviet Union.
		After 108 minutes of flight, Gagarin reentered the Earth’s atmosphere and landed in the Saratov region of the Soviet Union.
		Gagarin died tragically in an air accident in 1968.
	www.planetarium.net /edcenter/human/yuri.htm (202 words)

	Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin Biography \| scit_071_package.xml
		When Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born in 1934, his parents had no way of knowing that he was destined for a unique place in world history: the first human to travel in space.
		Gagarin senior chose to join the Russian army when his not-yet-famous son was seven years old.
		When Gagarin became aware of this program, he was quick to volunteer as an astronaut (a word found formerly only in science-fiction writings).
	www.bookrags.com /biography/yuri-alekseyevich-gagarin-scit-071 (597 words)

	Yuri Gagarin - First Man in Space - Vostok Spacecraft -
		The Vostok spacecraft was used to launch Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
		Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space.
		Gagarin's mission lasted one hour, 48 minutes, and ended with a landing in Kazakhstan, approximately 26 kilometers southwest of Engels.
	www.aerospaceguide.net /humansinspace/vostok.html (322 words)

	Yuri Gagarin
		A crater on the far side of the Moon is named for Yuri Gagarin.
		Yuri Gagarin was born near Moscow, Russia on March 9, 1934.
		Yuri Gagarin was killed in a plane crash before he could travel in space a second time.
	starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/StarChild/whos_who_level1/gagarin.html (188 words)

	'Your ID, please.' This was the first question that Yuri Gagarin heard, when he landed on ...
		Yuri Gagarin became a national hero as the first man in space - the name Gagarin became a symbol of the era.
		As it was said in it, Gagarin's capsule landed on the territory of the secret missile division.
		The place, where Gagarin landed, was totally not good to appear in press and on television: there was a military plant Signal and a missile division over there.
	english.pravda.ru /society/2002/04/12/27589.html (736 words)

	Wikinfo \| Yuri Gagarin
		Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (cyrillic Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин), (March 9, 1934 - March 27, 1968) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
		He was killed in a crash of a MiG-15 on a routine training flight near Moscow.
		Although Gagarin is indisputably the first man to survive space travel, there is a conspiracy theory that the Russians had previously launched two human beings into orbit prior to Gagarin, but both cosmonauts died enroute.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Yuri_Gagarin (198 words)

	Yuri Gagarin
		Major Yuri A. Gagarin, age 27, was the first man to orbit Earth.
		Yuri Gagarin's parents were peasants on a collective farm in the village of Gzhatsk.
		Gagarin died in an airplane crash on March 27, 1968.
	www.vibrationdata.com /space/Yuri.htm (956 words)

	APOD: 2001 April 14 - Man Enters Space
		After reentry, Gagarin ejected from the Vostok at an altitude of 20,000 feet and parachuted to Earth.
		Born on March 9, 1934, Gagarin was an air force jet pilot before being chosen for the first group of cosmonauts in 1960.
		Killed when his MIG jet crashed during a training flight on March 27, 1968, Gagarin was given a hero's funeral, his ashes interred in the Kremlin Wall.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap010414.html (228 words)

	Russian Archives Online > The Gallery > Yuri Gagarin p.2
		On his first jump, he clung to the fuselage as the other young men and women waited their turn with his teacher shouting, "Don't dither, Yuri, the girls are watching!" Soon after he took his first ride in a Yak-18 fighter plane.
		In November 1957, at the age of 23, Yuri graduated with top-ranking honors from Orenburg and became a lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force.
		His first post as a fighter pilot was at a Soviet Air Force base in the arctic, where his first flights were made in the light of the aurora borealis.
	www.pbs.org /redfiles/rao/gallery/gagarin/gagarin2.html (470 words)

	Yuri Gagarin
		As the first man to escape Earth's gravitation field and achieve orbit, Yuri Gagarin holds the title of first human being in space.
		Gagarin trained to return to space in the Soyuz program but died on 27 March 1968 when his MiG-15 crashed during a routine training flight.
		Gagarin's ashes were buried beside other Soviet heroes in the Kremlin Wall and a lunar crater was named after him.
	www.nndb.com /people/666/000026588 (180 words)

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