Murder? Suicide? UFO? Mysterious death of first man in space Yuri Gagarin after jet fighter crash in 1968 is finally solved Among the conspiracy theories were that Gagarin, 27, was murdered on the orders of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev for an unspecified offence. But after 40 years of secrecy, the real cause of his death can be revealed, courtesy of fellow cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov (inset). Leonov, who was the first man to make a spacewalk, in 1965, had been part of an official committee set up to investigate the accident. More importantly, he had been there on that fateful day in March.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:01:59 +0000
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