45 years later, details of fatal Yuri Gagarin jet crash revealed

By Robert Z. PearlmanSpace.comThe circumstances surrounding the death of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, who was killed in a 1968 jet crash, have long been clouded in theories and rumors. Now, the first man to walk in space says he can reveal what really happened to his friend and fellow Russian cosmonaut.Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first man to leave a spacecraft and float in the ...