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It was at 10 am on 12th April, 1961 when Radio Moscow interrupted scheduled broadcasting to announce something truly historic and magnificent. “Here is our special news,” it stated. “The first cosmic spaceship named Vostok 1 with a man on board has orbited around the Earth from the Soviet Union. He is an airman, Yuri Gagarin.”

An hour earlier the spacecraft Vostok 1, with Yuri Gagarin as its only crew, was fired from a launch pad in Baikonur in Kazakhstan. It orbited the Earth once at a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour for a total duration of 108 minutes. The ship’s flight path took it up to space and over the Pacific Ocean, South America, across the equator, and the South Atlantic before re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. The news quickly spread, and the world was astonished.

The Soviet Union was the first to get the man into space and Yuri Gagarin had become that man. He opened up a new page in the history of mankind in its conquest of space. Yuri Gagarin became a national hero and an international icon.

Today, in Moscow there is a 25-metre tall sculpture of a silver metallic rocket ship and a three-meter tall statue of Yuri Gagarin. The space hero has not been forgotten and on the 50th anniversary of his voyage into space world cosmonauts honoured the hero when the Russian, American, and Italian crew of the International Space Station sent a special video message to wish the people of the world a “Happy Yuri’s Night”.

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