Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a ____ pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to ____ into outer space, when his Vostok ____ completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in a ____ in Smolensk, Russia. In1960, he was ____ to be one of Soviet Union’s first human beings to be ____ in space, the first ____ of the Vostok programme. The cosmonaut group, called the “Sochi Six”, were ____ to experiments designed to test their physical and psychological ____. Out of this group, Gagarin and Gherman Titov were chosen to be the first ____ to launch into Space. At 9:07 on the ____ of April 12, 1961, Gagarin Vostok 1 spacecraft lifted off from Baikonur cosmodrome. The ____ was a single orbit around the Earth but unfortunately had a ____ in landing, causing Gagarin to get ejected first before landing, ____ him safely near the Volga River.

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