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== Appearances and references in fiction ==
* ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'': Helps the heroes in the game ''Great Chase Through Time''.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': A display about him appears in the transportation museum in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6 E5 The Seedsof Death|The Seeds of Death]]" next to a display about the flying machine of [[Leonardo
* ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'': Mentioned in a speech by Captain Ramius.
{{quote| '''Ramius''': It brings me back to the heady days of Sputnik, and Yuri Gagarin, when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. And they will tremble again, at the sound of our silence.}}
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* [[The Napoleon]]: Averted. He was all of 5'2" but this worked to his advantage in the cramped Vostok spacecraft. Nor was he sensitive about his height.
* [[108]]: His flight lasted 108 minutes.
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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 [[Yuri Gagarin]] was his backup, went ahead with the mission anyway so that his friend wouldn't have to take the risk instead. Everything went wrong. The capsule's solar cells didn't deploy properly. Communications broke down. The maneuvering thrusters that were designed to re-orient the ship lacked pressure. He couldn't see the sun to navigate the ship. After all that, after a heroic effect rigging up a system with the gyroscopes so that at last he could re-enter the atmosphere, the parachutes failed, and he died. Within a year, his friend would die in a plane crash anyway.
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