#DateInHistory
🗓 Cosmonautics Day is celebrated all over Russia today. It was on this date, April 12, 1961, that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in world history to fly into outer space.
His orbital flight on the Vostok-1 spacecraft lasted 108 minutes, and the cosmonaut himself successfully returned to Earth for the first time and landed on the territory of the Saratov region.
👨🚀 In the Soviet Union, April 12 was declared “Cosmonautics Day,” and since 2011, this day has been celebrated worldwide as “International Day of Human Space Flight.”
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🗓 Cosmonautics Day is celebrated all over Russia today. It was on this date, April 12, 1961, that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in world history to fly into outer space.
His orbital flight on the Vostok-1 spacecraft lasted 108 minutes, and the cosmonaut himself successfully returned to Earth for the first time and landed on the territory of the Saratov region.