Yuri Gagarin: The First Human in Space

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Yuri Gagarin: The First Human in Space - A Historical Overview

The first person to orbit Earth was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut. He accomplished this feat on April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.

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