Explore 20 vintage photos of the first man who went to space. See historic moments from Yuri Gagarin’s groundbreaking journey and the early space age.
In 1961, a young Soviet pilot named Yuri Gagarin made history as the first person to travel into space. His spacecraft, Vostok 1, completed a single orbit of Earth in just under two hours, forever changing our understanding of what…
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