Brawler, drinker, womanizer, hero? Trying to piece together the truth of Yuri Gagarin

On the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s death, instead of trying to delve into the unknowable minutia of his final flight, an attempt to understand what really made the first man in space tick down here on Earth. Gagarin died at 34, before he had a chance to live through the Moon landing, Perestroika or […]