# Yuri Gagarin (@yuri-gagarin)

Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to travel into outer space and orbit Earth.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Yuri Gagarin's public record._

## Topics

- [Global legacy](/@yuri-gagarin/legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Cosmonaut selection](/@yuri-gagarin/selection.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Vostok 1](/@yuri-gagarin/vostok-1.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_history/50_years_of_humans_in_space/Yuri_Gagarin
- blog: https://www.nasa.gov/history/60-years-ago-yuri-gagarin-becomes-the-first-man-in-space/
- blog: https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-spaceflight-day

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "yuri-gagarin", "question": "…"}`.