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• The first man to go into space was not expected to survive

The first man to go into space was Yuri Gagarin in Russia On April 12, 1961, he spent only 108 minutes in space as the commander of the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 1 Gagarin did not tell his mother that he was going to space Because the trip was very secret and he did not tell his wife the real date of his trip, but he told her a further date (and by that time he was back home, and in anticipation of any accident he left a message saying that he did not expect to return and that he asked her to marry again if something bad happened to him.