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In response to
"Yuri Gagarin (Юрий Гагарин) became first person in space 50 years ago today -- nm"
by
zork
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From what I've been reading recently, he wasn't the first, just the first to come back alive.
Posted by
TWuG
Apr 12 '11, 05:20
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The Soviets scrubbed a lot of failures from their records. It's likely that Gagarin was the third or fourth cosmonaut the Soviets sent up.
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