This is an image of Earth taken from the International Space Station in 2003. This is what Earth might have looked like to Yuri Gagarin, who was the first person in space almost exactly fifty years ago. On April 12, 1961 he was launched. He was a soviet hero, but unfortunately, he died in a plane crash only seven years later. The first Us launched space shuttle also launched on an April12. it launched in 1981, twenty years after Gagarin, and thirty years ago.
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