Possible Clues:

• Genre of Japanese media that focuses on intimate relationship between female characters
• '___!!! on Ice' (anime series)
• Space race hero Gagarin
• Earth-orbiting Gagarin
• First spaceman's first name
• Manga genre that depicts intimate relationships between women
• First name in space
• Name on the Cosmonaut Training Center
• Cold War KGB chairman Andropov
• Gagarin whose orbiter was Vostok I