This document provides brief biographies of two famous explorers: 1) James Cook, a British explorer, navigator and captain in the Royal Navy who surveyed and mapped much of the Saint Lawrence River and later led three Pacific voyages, bringing him to the attention of the British Admiralty. 2) Yuri Gagarin, a Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human to journey into outer space by completing an orbit of the Earth, making him an international celebrity. He later became a deputy training director but died in a 1968 plane crash.

1. FAMOUS PEOPLE

2. JAMES COOK
 James Cook, FRS, RN (7 November 1728 – 14
February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator,
cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook
joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and
joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in
the Seven Years' War, and subsequently surveyed and
mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence
River during the siege of Quebec. This helped bring
Cook to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society.
This notice came at a crucial moment in both Cook's
career and the direction of British overseas exploration,
and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM
Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages.

3. YURI ALEKSEYEVICH GAGARIN
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий
Алексе́евич Гага́рин; IPA: 9 March 1934 – 27 March
1968) was a Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He
was the first human to journey into outer space, when
his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on
12 April 1961.Gagarin became an international celebrity,
and was awarded many medals and titles,
including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest
honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he
served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission (which
ended in a fatal crash). Gagarin later became deputy
training director of the Cosmonaut Training
Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after
him. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet
he was piloting crashed.

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