Yuri Gagarin: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: European Space Agency - Yuri Gagarin. Nov 13, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC News - Yuri Gagarin: Top 7 Things You Never Knew About the First Man in Space. Jun 09, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Conversations - Yuri Gagarin, Cold War Cosmonaut. Apr 27, 2026
Anniversary information added. Mar 23, 2026
Anniversary information added. Mar 05, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC - Yuri Gagarin: the spaceman who came in from the cold. Jan 06, 2026
Add new Web site: The Planetary Society - Yuri Gagarin and Vostok 1, the First Human…. Aug 08, 2025
Add new Web site: South Ural State University - Yuri Gagarin: Global Scale Heroic Deed of the First Man in Space. Sep 11, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 05, 2024
Add new Web site: CNN - This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human in orbit — fueling the space race. Dec 26, 2023
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Archive on 4 - Gagarin and the Lost Moon. Aug 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Live Science - Yuri Gagarin: How the first man in space sparked a conspiracy theory. May 18, 2023
Add new Web site: My Hero - Biography of Yuri Gagarin. Aug 26, 2022
Add new Web site: Space.com - Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space. Mar 14, 2022
Add new Web site: Explorers Pirates and Privateers - Biography of Yuri Gagarin. Jan 22, 2019
Changed article title from "Yury Alekseyevich Gagarin" to "Yuri Gagarin." Oct 01, 2018
Add new Web site: European Space Agency - Yuri Gagarin. Dec 07, 2016
Add new Web site: RT Russiapedia - Biography of Yury Gagarin. Jul 27, 2016
Add new Web site: New Mexico Museum of Space History - Yuri A. Gagarin. Jul 27, 2016
Add new Web site: National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Space Shuttle - Biography of Yuri Gagarin. Jan 11, 2013
Video of Yury Gagarin added. Sep 04, 2009
Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Biography of Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin. Apr 08, 2009
Media added. Aug 04, 2008
Added new Web site: The Yuri Gagarin Russian State Science Research Cosmonauts Training Center. Apr 25, 2006
Article revised. Jun 06, 2005
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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