Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, later died when one of these crashed.
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Airplane. The Soviet cosmonaut died Mar. 27, 1968, when the MiG-15 jet he was piloting crashed near Moscow. He was training for a second space mission at the time. He made history Apr. 12, 1961, as the first human to circle the Earth.