Spaceship designer who helped send Gagarin into orbit dies at 92

Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 14:00 in Astronomy & Space

A spaceship designer who worked on Yury Gagarin's Vostok spaceship and was the last to shake his hand before liftoff, Oleg Ivanovsky, died on Thursday at 92, the Russian space agency said.

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