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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — April 12 marks the anniversaries of not one, but two achievements in spaceflight. They happened twenty years apart, but both are major milestones. On April 12, 1961, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin would climb into the Vostok One spacecraft, and become the first person to rocket into space, orbit the earth, and […] ....

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