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* [[Reentry Scare]]: His capsule began to spin rapidly as it entered the atmosphere; fortunately it slowed down eventually.
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov in the Soyuz 1 space mission, during the [[Space Race]]. Komarov knew the mission was unsafe, but knowing that his friend
* [[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.
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