Yuri Gagarin: The first man in space – BBC News

It’s sixty years since the first human blasted into space.

For the Soviet Union, Yuri Gagarin’s single orbit of the Earth was a huge achievement and propaganda coup. There will be celebrations across Russia to mark the anniversary.

We meet the woman who, as a little girl, witnessed the day the cosmonaut came back down to earth and a Russian hero was born.

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