The US Space and Rocket Center s new Rocket Park will preserve and showcase the earliest rocket hardware, developed in North Alabama, that opened the door to modern space exploration.
"I could have gone on flying through space forever." -Yuri Gagarin
It was April 12th, 1961, or fifty years ago today, that Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to leave Earth the ground, the atmosphere, the stratosphere and to soar into outer space.
Ham the Astrochimp was launched from Brevard County for an 18-minute flight aboard a Mercury capsule that reached an altitude of 150 miles from Cape Canaveral on January 31, 1961.
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