Russians celebrate 60 years since historic Gagarin spaceflight
RUSSIA celebrated the 60th anniversary of the legendary flight that made Yuri Gagarin the first man in space today, a major source of national pride for millions of his countrymen.
Russia’s space industry has struggled in recent years and been hit by a series of mishaps, but the sending of the first human into space on April 12, 1961, remains a crowning achievement of the Soviet space programme.
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