After over 40 years of secrecy, the real cause of death of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has been made public. Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) became the first human to journey into outer space on April 12, 1961. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed.
Aleksey Leonov, the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, has been struggling to gain permission to disclose details of what happened to Gagarin in March 1968. Back then a State Commission concluded that Gagarin and instructor Vladimir Seryogin tried to avoid a foreign object by carrying out a maneuver that had led to a tailspin and, finally, collision with the ground. Both pilots died in that test flight. But now it seems that everything went down differently.
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