The 50th Anniversary of the First Man in Space
On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. (Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later.)
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