Video: 'Last flight of Yury Gagarin: What killed the space icon'

(Wednesday, March 27, 1968, 10:31 a.m. MSK; during the Cold War) — Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space in 1961, died today when his MiG-15 jet crashed during a routine training flight near the town of Kirzhach.

Gagarin was 34.

Video: 'Life and the tragic death of Yuri Gagarin' (Mar. 27, 1968, at 26:41)