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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Jurij Aleksejevič Gagarin; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut who on April 12, 1961 became the first person in space and the first person to orbit the Earth.

By DAVID POGUE “When I was your age,” we’ll someday tell our awe-struck grandchildren, “wireless Internet was available only in isolated hot spots 100 feet across!” That is, if everything works out the way the electronics industry hopes. Every couple of years,…