Y — Yuri Gagarin

Y - Yuri Gagarin 👨‍🚀. A 27 year-old Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, Yuri was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok 1 spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth in 1961. He spent 1 hour, 29 minutes orbiting Earth, traveling about 17,500 mph.

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