For more than five decades, humans have been suiting up and riding rockets to escape the bonds of Earth, but the anniversary of that historic first flight — which blasted off 51 years ago this week— ...
MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. Wednesday marks the anniversary of the first manned flight to space, performed by Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. The date is celebrated as the Cosmonautics Day in Russia and ...
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The Soviet secret behind Gagarin’s flight
When Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth in 1961, the Soviet Union celebrated the mission as a flawless triumph of the Space Race. Behind the carefully crafted headlines, however, the ...
The work of grand prix winner Aleksei Voropayev became the “face” of the book about space, A Glance That United the World.
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