apr 12, 1961 - First Human in Space
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Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first to be released into space. After 15 minutes into being in space, a conversation between Yuri and the Baikonur launch facility revealed that the Soviet Union had beaten the US in the race to put a human in the cosmos. He had orbited the Earth one single time before coming back down.
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