Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Leading Suit Engineer Ivan F. Kruchkov poses for a photograph with the Sokol launch and landing suits used by cosmonauts and astronauts during training February 25, 2016 in Star City, Russia. Kruchkov was the flight instructor for the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin while at the Orenburg military pilot school in 1956 and 1957.

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Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Leading Suit Engineer Ivan F. Kruchkov poses for a photograph with the Sokol launch and landing suits used by cosmonauts and astronauts during training February 25, 2016 in Star City, Russia. Kruchkov was the flight instructor for the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin while at the Orenburg military pilot school in 1956 and 1957.

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Location: Star City, Russia
Photo credit: © NASA Photo / Alamy / Afripics
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