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International Day of Human Space Flight – April 12
April 14 , 2021
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- The UN General Assembly declared that April 12 was to be celebrated as International Day of Human Space Flight.
- On 12 April 1961, 1st human space flight was carried out by Yuri Gagarin.
- He was a Soviet citizen, who became the first person to journey into outer space.
- 12 April was also the date of the 1st Space Shuttle STS-1 of Columbia launched in 1981.
- On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to orbit the Earth
- On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot upon the surface of the moon.
- Apollo and Soyuz were the first joint US-Russian space flight.
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