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* [[Space Madness]]: The flight was designed to be almost entirely automatic, but [[Manual Override|the manual controls could be unlocked by entering a numerical code into them]]. As the authorities were afraid he would go mad (after all, no one had been in space before so who could tell how the human brain would react?), they decided to transmit the override code to him from Earth only if necessary. But the "Chief Designer" Sergei Korolev (who trusted Gagarin implicitly) secretly handed him a copy of the code during the pre-launch preparations.
* [[The Space Race]]: His pioneering flight radically changed the Space Race from a purely technological contest into a contest of human achievement, and gave the Soviets another victory in the race.
* [[The Sixties]]: His flight, combined with the inauguration of President [[John F. Kennedy]] in the USA, set the tone for the decade, which would culminate in the Moon landings in 1969.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: His death.
* [[Urine Trouble]]: [[Averted Trope]]. Before the launch, Gagarin peed on a tire of the bus that took him to the launch pad, starting a cosmonaut tradition.
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