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How Vostok 1 worked – 51 years of spaceflight

by How It Works Team · 12/04/2012

First in flight

See how the first human spaceflight actually occurred when the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961 in this SPACE.com infographic.
Source SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

50 years of space travel

See the spaceships that have launched astronauts and cosmonauts into space in the first 50 years of human spaceflight.
Source SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

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