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Yuri Gagarin meeting British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Admiralty House in London, 13 July 1961. Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

Spaceflight history | When Yuri Gagarin visited Great Britain

In July 1961 the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin visited the United Kingdom, having just become the first human being to take a trip into space.

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