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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, prepares for his historic space flight on April 12, 1961.
1961: The Dawn of Human Spaceflight – Gagarin and Shepard’s Historic Missions

Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard pioneered human spaceflight in 1961, marking the start of an era of space exploration celebrated annually on Yuri’s Night