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apr 12, 1961 - First Manned Space Flight

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The first flight to space carrying a human was the Vostok 1 with Yuri Gagarin. This flight was launched by the Soviet Union in April 1961. The goal of this was to send a Soviet citizen into space and return them safely before the United States.

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apr 12, 1961
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~ 65 years ago