A brief history of the first man to be blasted into space half a century ago this week.
APRIL 12, 1961. Russian pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made the first historic flight into space aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1. He was also the first human being to orbit the Earth.
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