



General Designer S.P. Korolev inspects Yuri Gagarin's performance during cosmonaut training in 1961. Korolev asks Gagarin another question.
Korolev sees Gagarin off on his flight at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, shaking his hand and hugging him goodbye.
Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin - pilot-cosmonaut
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev - designer of rocket and space technology
April 12, 1961
Moscow region, Baikonur
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