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Double anniversary means doubles all round, are we right?
Richard Speed Mon 12 Apr 2021 // 20:03 UTC Share
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Join us in raising a toast in celebration of both the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin s orbit of the Earth and 40 years since the first Space Shuttle left the pad.
Gagarin s flight, on 12 April 1961, marked the first of a human into orbit. The mission, aboard the Vostok 3KA spacecraft, lasted less than two hours from lift-off until Gagarin reached the ground, via parachute, but has continued to resonate through the decades since.
Gagarin and Titov on their way to the launch pad on 12 April, 1961.