You might have seen headlines a few weeks ago that Yuri Gagarin was 'cancelled' or 'stripped of achievements' - turns out that's mostly untrue. Yuri was a hero to all mankind, and tonight is his night.
Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, has had his name removed from a Space Foundation fundraiser
In 1968, the USSR developed the FM-2 Phantom Mannequin to study the effects of cosmic radiation on the human body. The sculptors used the likeness of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly to space, for the robot's face. FM-2 flew around the moon during the Zond-7 mission in 1969.
