On April 12, 1961, Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth aboard Vostok 1. The mission lasted just 108 minutes, but a malfunction during re-entry introduced serious risk ...
On this day in 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova became the first woman to travel in space, having been launched into orbit aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6, which completed 48 orbits in 71 ...
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