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'''Yuri Gagarin''' (1934-1968) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[cosmonaut]].  In 1961 he became the first human being to orbit the [[Earth]].<ref>[http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level1/gagarin.html NASA bio]</ref>

'''Yuri Gagarin''' (1934-1968) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[cosmonaut]].  In 1961 he became the first human being to orbit the [[Earth]].<ref>[http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level1/gagarin.html NASA bio]</ref> When he returned from his first mission, Premier [[Khrushchev]] immediately asked him if he had seen God during his trip. Gagarin quickly replied "Boga nyet" ("God no"). The exchange was meant to shake religious beliefs in the [[Soviet Union]] and elsewhere, but all it did was reveal how little the [[Communist]]s knew about the religions they tried to suppress.

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