Also known as: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин, Youri Alexeïevitch Gagarine, Juri Alexejewitsch Gagarin, Jurij Alekseevič Gagarin
Biography
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human travel into outer space: his capsule, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.