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| An air force pilot and cosmonaut, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human in space on the historic 1961 flight of Vostok 1. Approximately 327 km (203 mi) above Earth at his ship's highest point, Gagarin made a single orbit around the planet. The total time of the flight was 1 hour 48 minutes. | ||||||
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