April 12, 2012

    Today is a fiftieth anniversary and a thirtieth anniversary year.

    The first human being to orbit the Earth, Yuri Gagarin, went up for one orbit as a Cosmonaut of the former Soviet Union on this date in 1961.

    STS1, the first launch of the Space Shuttle was made on this date in 1981.

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