Celebrating the Life of Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space

Celebrating the Life of Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space

The world’s first man in space Yuri Gagarin was born 83 years ago, on March 9, 1934.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man in outer space when the Vostok-1 spacecraft with the Soviet cosmonaut on board was launched from the Baikonur space center on April 12, 1961, at 6:07 AM local time, marking a new era in human history.

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