On April 10, 1961, a 27-year-old father reached for a pen and paper. To prepare for his journey, Yuri Gagarin began writing a farewell letter to his wife and daughters. "Some accident may happen here too ... I ask you all ... not to waste yourself with grief," he wrote. Two days later, he became the first man in history to orbit the world in a spaceship. The Vostok, meaning "East" in Russian, flew in space for 108 minutes.
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