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NASA astronauts say world’s first man in space Gagarin ‘changed civilization forever’
NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our ...
Heartbreaking mystery of first ever space dog who would tragically 'never come back' to Earth
Here is the heartbreaking story of Laika, the soviet dog who became the first animal to orbit the Earth in 1957.
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1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space
Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man in space on 12 April 1961. Major Gagarin orbited the Earth for 108 minutes, travelling at more than 17,000 miles per hour ...
How the dream of space travel became a reality — podcast review
The new podcast 16 Sunsets opens with archive audio from Nasa’s mission control in 1981, in the build-up to the first flight ...
Sputnik 1: It was the first artificial Earth satellite, launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
Voyager 1: It was a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar ...