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Yuri 4 full1/20/2023 ![]() If an emergency arose, Gagarin was supposed to receive an override code that would allow him to take manual control, but Sergei Korolev, chief designer of the Soviet space program, disregarded protocol and gave the code to the pilot prior to the flight. Because no one was certain how weightlessness would affect a pilot, the spherical capsule had little in the way of onboard controls the work was done either automatically or from the ground. Moscow time, the Vostok 1 spacecraft blasted off from the Soviets' launch site.
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