with what position did he begin his air force journey?
Gagarin was commissioned a lieutenant in the Soviet Air Forces
Yuri Gagarin
 Gagarin was commissioned a lieutenant in the Soviet Air Forces having accumulated 166 hours and 47 minutes of flight time. 
where did the launching of sputnik take place It was launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit who was responsible for the launch? The Soviet Union when was it launched? 4 October 1957 was it a part of any space program? UNANSWERABLE was the union involved in any other such program? Yes, On April 12, 1961, the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was sent to the space. He once flew around the Earth and successfully landed in the Kazakh steppe. where was this cosmonaut from? Klushino where can you find his statues? located in the town named after him as well as in Orenburg, Cheboksary, Irkutsk, Izhevsk, Some statues are A statue of Gagarin was unveiled at Admiralty Arch in The Mall in London.
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Yuri Gagarin [SEP] Soviet Air Force service
On 5 November 1957, Gagarin was commissioned a lieutenant in the Soviet Air Forces having accumulated 166 hours and 47 minutes of flight time. He graduated from flight school the next day and was posted to the Luostari Air Base close to the Norwegian border in Murmansk Oblast for a two-year assignment with the Northern Fleet. On 7 July 1959, he was rated Military Pilot 3rd Class. After expressing interest in space exploration following the launch of Luna 3 on 6 October 1959, his recommendation to the Soviet space programme was endorsed and forward by Lieutenant Colonel Babushkin. By this point, he had accumulated 265 hours of flight time.