
Yuri Gagarin
2026-06-20
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The first all-female spacewalk in history did not happen until October 2019, fifty-eight years after Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth — and an earlier all-female attempt seven months before was reassigned because only one medium spacesuit torso was ready on the s
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April 12 in History: From Yuri Gagarin’s Spaceflight to Fort Sumter and FDR’s Death
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Hoping for Earth from beyond it: Yuri Gagarin, Artemis II and the overview effect
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March 27 in History: From Yuri Gagarin’s Death to the First Cherry Blossoms in Washington
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Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, has had his name removed from a Space Foundation fundraiser, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine