Lex Anteinternet: Yuri Gagarin's Death. March 27, 1968.

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Yuri Gagarin's Death. March 27, 1968.

On this date in 1968, another year we're tracking, legendary Soviet Cosmonaut Yurk Gagarin, the first man to travel into space, died in when a Mig-15UTI crashed. Flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin also died in the accident. The aircraft entered an apparently uncontrollable spin for reasons that remain unknown.

Gagarin in 1961.

Gagarin passed into history on April 12, 1961 with a lift off that was marked by this exchange:

Korolev: "Preliminary stage..... intermediate..... main..... lift off! We wish you a good flight. Everything is all right."

Gagarin: "Поехали!" (Poyekhali!—Let's go!)"

At the time of his death Gagarin, whose first flight into space made him both internationally famous and a sort of Cold War figure, was 34 years old.

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