Yuri Gagarin #OnThisDay
The Orkney News [Unofficial]
April 12, 2026
On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1 completed one orbit of Earth. He was the first person to travel into Space in a flight which took 108 minutes. Yuri Gagarin was a pilot with the Soviet Air Forces. He was born on 9 March 1934 in the village of Klushino, in the Western Oblast, near […]
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