Today is April 12th, also known as Yuri's day, in honor of Yuri Gagarin, who made the first manned space flight on April 12th, 1961.
Colonel Gagarin was born March 9th, 1934.
His flight on the Vostok 3KA-3 (flight called Vostok 1) lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes, and he completed an orbit of the earth.
Col. Gagarin died on March 27, 1968 in a crash while testing the MIG-15 fighter.
Thank you very much to Col. Gagarin. Not just a Russian hero, but a hero to all humankind.
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let there be centuries more.