On This Day April 12

Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1. Gagarin was born in the Smolensk region of the Soviet Union. He became a pilot in 1957 and on April 12, 1961 completed one orbit of the Earth, taking 108 minutes from launch to landing. The world's first astronaut sarcastically commented that upon reaching outer space during his spaceflight, he failed to see God.

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