This site is wholly dedicated to one of the greatest heroes in the history of man: Yuri Gagarin, Cosmonaut of The Soviet Union.

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On April 12, 1961, Yury Gagarin made history, by being the first human to orbit the earth. He wouldn't need any food for his single orbit trip, but scientists wanted to know if he could eat in the weightlessness of space. As a precaution, engineers at the Soviet Academy of Sciences had an onboard computer, as well as mission control steer the craft, Vostok 1. They did this because the feared ...