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Patrick Rowan’s Skywatch: First man in space, shuttle debut mark anniversaries
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The first reusable Space Shuttle, Columbia, lifted into orbit on April 12, 1981. Only carrying two astronauts and a relatively light payload, it stayed in orbit a little over two days. (NASA photo)
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This coming Monday marks 60 years since the first human being left the Earth and reached space, and 40 years since the first space shuttle launch.
On April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, riding the Vostok 1 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan. Twenty years later, on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the start of NASA’s shuttle era.
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