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This Happened – April 12: Yuri Gagarin Makes Space History

Post author By lmacret
Post date April 12, 2024

Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet Air Force pilot and cosmonaut became the first human ever to travel into outer space on this day in 1961.

Tags 1961, april 12 1961, cold war, cold war space race, cosmonaut, first human in outer space, first outer space travel, outer space, soviet air force, soviet union, space race, vostok 1, yuri gagarin

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April 12

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Post date April 12, 2016

Tags David letterman, death, euro disney, paris, roosevelt, space, united states, yuri gagarin

Eyes on the U.S. Future

Why Russia Is Abandoning The International Space Station

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Post date January 29, 2015

U.S. astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson looking out the ISS NASA/Tracy Caldwell Dyson

With its programs aging, Russia has announced that it’s pulling out of the International Space Station in 2020. Where does that leave space exploration for the rest of the world?

Tags elon musk, international space station, iss, mars, Mir, moon, nasa, russia, space x, yuri gagarin

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