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International Day of Human Space Flight 12 April

12 April

by Boris Voronin

12 April 1961

At USSR(Russia) it was really fun day!

12 April 1961 was the date of the first human space flight, carried out by Yuri Gagarin.

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Archives of Rocket and Space Corporation Energia

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