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International Day of Human Space Flight – April 12

April 14 , 2021 1318 days 1785 0
  • 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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