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Who was the first person to fly into space?

The launch of the world's first artificial Earth satellite marked the beginning of the space age, and on April 12, 1961, the Vostok spacecraft with a man on board took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome.

Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, who opened the way to space, circled the globe in 108 minutes and landed in a given area. And behind every minute of its flight - search, hard work of designers, engineers, workers of all specialties. Man's old dream came true - to gain wings and fly over the Earth.

The whole planet loved him. It has become a symbol of our time. However, he did not want to stop there, he was preparing for new flights ... A tragic accident during one of the training flights on a jet aircraft cut short the life of the first cosmonaut of the planet. But the people of the Earth will always remember Yuri Gagarin, his unusually kind smile.

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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