12 abr 1961 ano - First man in space (USSR)

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On April 12, 1961, the USSR surprised the world again by launching Yuri Gagarin into a single orbit around the Earth in a craft they called Vostok 1. He was dubbed the world's first cosmonaut, translated from Greek to mean 'sailor of the universe'.

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