Major Yuri Gagarin with His Wife and Mr. Nehru
Major Yuri Gagarin, the world's (and Russia's) first space-man, pictured with his wife and Mr. Nehru, the Prime Minister when he arrived in New Delhi at the start of an eight day visit to India. Thousands cheered the cosmonaut as he drove from New...
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Russia's Second Astronaut put into Space Major Gherman Titov
"Russia's second astronaut put into space"
Photo shows: Major Gherman Titov, Russia's second astronaut to be put intp space.
Major Titov, aged 26, married but with no children, orbited the earth 17 times during his journey made at a height of 160 ...
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The Souvenir Medal on the First Man Made Space Flight
The souvenir medal on the first man made space flight which is being made by the Dulevo Porcelain Factory on its right side bears a relief portrait of the Hero-Cosmonaut with inscription "Yuri Gagarin".
On its left side, it has the Hammer and Sick...
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Yuri Among the Orchids
Major Yuri Gagarin filming the orchids in the Orchid House at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya. He exclaimed: "Beautiful", as he entered the Orchid House and later exposed several feet of film, specially on the "Vanda Oscar Kirsch", now in ...
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Yuri Gagarin Is About to Take Off
(3) Hands — or rather, thumbs! — up. It's a short farewell. But no man had ever gone so far in so short a time before he rejoined his comrades. He is about to take off!
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