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Fifty years ago -- on April 12, 1961 -- Yuri Gagarin set off from a launch pad at the Cosmodrome at Baikonur, near Lake Aral in what was then the U.S.S.R. He landed one hour and forty-eight minutes later in a farm field 400 miles southeast of Moscow.
Meg Waite Clayton: Found in Space: 50 Years After Yuri Gagarin Meg Waite Clayton 2011
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It is difficult for heroes to remain untarnished, still less Soviet ones, but on the 50th anniversary of the first human travel in space, such a fate is reserved for Yuri Gagarin.
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And only one month before Kennedy's speech, the Soviets sent the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin.
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"If space is the final frontier, why are we still using the same technology that took Yuri Gagarin into orbit a half-century ago," asks Jonathan Coopersmith of Texas A&M University in College Station.
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The drive to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, 30 miles away, needs to get done before rush hour.
James M. Clash: Weightless Training Over Moscow James M. Clash 2011
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And only one month before Kennedy's speech, the Soviets sent the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin.
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"If space is the final frontier, why are we still using the same technology that took Yuri Gagarin into orbit a half-century ago," asks Jonathan Coopersmith of Texas A&M University in College Station.
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Columbia was the first to fly on April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the world's first spaceman.
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It's not really news, any more than it was news when the USSR said Yuri Gagarin didn't find God in low orbit.
Christopher Cocca: Heaven, Hell And Stephen Hawking Christopher Cocca 2011
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"What about 1961 when brave Yuri Gagarin was the first man to go into space?" whispered Jesse quietly, now feeling quite nervous.
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