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By johnm
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#1840050
Remember it well and listening to the bleeps from the earlier Sputnik on our radio....
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By CloudHound
#1840053
Saw the story of him frightening a potato farmer a few hundred miles south of Moscow on the News today after he parachuted out of the craft.

True hero!
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By Lockhaven
#1840060
And his wife Valentina Gagarin never re married after Yuri's death but continued with in the space industry until her retirement working in the medical section laboratory of the Mission Control Center.

After she retired from the space industry Valentina then worked in the Kremlin giving guided tours up until a couple years before she passed away on March 17, 2020, at the age of 84.
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