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50th anniversary of the first manned mission to space, 30th year since the first space shuttle mission
Rome, Italy - NASA will hold a conference to celebrate the two events
Today it's the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned mission to space: in fact it was April 12, 1961, when the 27 year-old Russian Yuri Gagarin travelled into an entire elliptical orbit around Earth, moving, at a speed of 27,400 Km/h, on board the spacecraft "Vostok 1". Once come back to Earth, he was titled Hero of the Soviet Union. Twenty years later, on April 12, 1981, John Young and Robert...
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1128161
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency