Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space

On the 12th of April 1961, 50 years ago Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space.


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Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space on April 12, 1961
April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment.
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