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Cosmonautics Day
Cosmonautics Day
(,
Den Kosmonavtiki
) is an anniversary celebrated in
Russia
and some other former USSR countries on April 12. In 2011, April 12 was declared as the
International Day of Human Space Flight
in dedication of the
first manned space flight
made on April 12, 1961 by the 27-year-old Russian
Soviet
cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin
. Gagarin circled the
Earth
for 1 hour and 48 minutes aboard the
Vostok 1
spacecraft.
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