Looking back on six decades of humankind in space

The first man to travel in space, Yury Alekseyvich Gagarin

The first man to travel in space, Yury Alekseyvich Gagarin Source: Getty Archive

This year will mark 60 years since the first human flew to space, after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's pioneering space flight in April 1961. A number of other space anniveraries occur this year as well.



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