April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin was the first human in space. The rocket carying Vostok 1 spacecraft with Youri Gagarin on board blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 6:07 am of local time. Spacecraft Vostok 1 circled the planet Earth in 108 minutes, while Gagarin reported of the happening outside of his …
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