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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.
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