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Wooden satellites: Can space answer NZ s productivity question? 13 minutes to read OPINION: On April 14 this year, just two days after the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, more than 100 Kiwis attended the Auckland Aerospace event in Auckland. Since those days of Gagarin and Nasa s original Mercury 7 astronauts, humans have extended their reach a fair way, including creating something of a traffic jam around Mars in 2021, with three missions from national space agencies in North America, Asia and the Middle East (Nasa, the China National Space Administration and the UAE Space Agency). ....