Spaceship designer who helped send Gagarin into orbit dies at 92

Spaceship designer who helped send Gagarin into orbit dies at 92
Moscow (AFP) Sept 18, 2014 - A spaceship designer who worked on Yury Gagarin's Vostok spaceship and was the last to shake his hand before liftoff, Oleg Ivanovsky, died on Thursday at 92, the Russian space agency said. Ivanovsky was a senior designer at the facility codenamed OKB-1 which built the Vostok spaceship that blasted Gagarin into orbit in 1961. "He participated directly in preparing the flight of the world' ... more

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