Saturday, April 11, 2009

April 12, 1961

Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space, launching to orbit aboard the Vostok 3KA-2

"The Earth is blue. ... How wonderful. It is amazing." —Gagarin, to ground control

"Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any God there" -Nikita Khrushchev's speaking at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU

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