On April 12, 1961, Yury Gagarin made the first space flight on the Vostok spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Space Center.
Since then Russia has marked April 12 as Cosmonautics Day.
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On April 12, 1961, Yury Gagarin made the first space flight on the Vostok spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Space Center.
Since then Russia has marked April 12 as Cosmonautics Day.