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You never forget the first time humanity sent a man to space. Yuri Gagarin’s first trip beyond our planet’s atmosphere fuelled our imaginations, perhaps because we each had a different image in our heads of what Gagarin’s trip looked like.
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Babitsky, V. (2019). An Engineers’ Engineer. In: On the Waves of a Pulsating World . Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30849-0_7
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