On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin became the first human to journey into space. The rocket carrying the Vostok 1 spacecraft, with Gagarin aboard, launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 6:07 AM local time. Over the course of 108 minutes, Vostok 1 completed an orbit around Earth, marking humanity’s first step into the …
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Mikhail Oparin 